Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care Page 12
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15(I) A patient admitted to a health facility or agency has the rights enumerated in section 20201 of the
public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20201.
Some, but not all, of the rights enumerated in Sec. 20201 include:
A patient or resident in a health facility or agency (including a hospital or nursing home) will not be
denied appropriate care on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disability,
marital status, sexual preference, or source of payment.
Patients and residents are also entitled to:
● inspect, or receive for a reasonable fee, a copy of their medical records and to have the
confidentiality of those records maintained.
● receive adequate and appropriate care, and to receive from the appropriate individual within the
facility information about his her medical condition, proposed course of treatment, and prospects
of recovery, in terms which the patient or resident can understand.
● refuse treatment to the extent provided by the law and to be informed of the consequences of
that refusal. When a refusal of treatment prevents a health facility or its staff from providing
appropriate care according to ethical and professional standards, the relationship with the patient
or resident may be terminated upon reasonable notice.
● information about the facility’s policies and procedures for initiation, review, and resolution of patient
complaints.
● receive and examine an explanation of his or her bill regardless of the source of payment and to
receive, upon request, information relating to financial assistance available through the facility.
● associate and have private communications and consultations with his or her physician, attorney,
or any other person of his or her choice, and to send and receive personal mail unopened on the
same day it is received at the health facility or agency, unless medically contraindicated as
documented by the attending physician in the medical record.
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