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Personal Needs
To be treated with courtesy, consideration, and respect for your dignity and individuality.

To have access to storage space in your room for private use. The hospital must also have a system to safeguard your personal property.

Freedom From Abuse
To freedom from physical and mental abuse.

To freedom from restraints, unless they are authorized by a physician for a limited period of time to protect the safety of you or others.

Legal Rights
To treatment and medical services without discrimination based on age, religion, national origin, sex, sexual preference, handicap, diagnosis, ability to pay, or source of payment.

To exercise all your constitutional, civil, and legal rights.
Privacy and Confidentiality
To have physical privacy during medical treatment and personal hygiene functions unless you need assistance.

To confidential treatment of information about you. Information in your record will not be released to anyone outside the hospital without your approval, unless it is required by law.

Questions or Complaints?
To present questions or unresolved complaints, please direct them to Customer Service, which may may be reached from within the Center by dialing 2969.Customer Service may be reached from outside the hospital by calling (609) 735-2969. All questions and complaints will be addressed during regular business hours. Monday thru Friday 8:00am to 4:3 pm. You may directly contact the NJ Department of Health Complaint Hotline at 1-800-792-9770.

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This list of Patient Rights is an abbreviated summary of the current New Jersey laws and regulations governing the rights of hospital patients. For more complete information, consult N.J. Department of Heath regulations at N.J.A.C. 8:43G-4, or Public Law 1989 Chapter 170, available through your hospital.
Brought to you as a service of Deborah Heart and Lung Center and the New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton, NJ.