Riverside County Fire Department - Notice of Privacy Practices

IMPORTANT: THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU (THE PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL/PATIENT, THAT IS OBTAINED DURING MEDICAL EMERGENCIES) MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

As an essential part of our commitment to you, the Riverside County Fire Department maintains the privacy of certain confidential health care information about you, known as “Protected Health Information”. We are required by law to protect your health care information and to provide you with the attached Notice of Privacy Practices.

The Notice outlines our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information. It not only describes our privacy practices and your legal rights, but lets you know, among other things, how the Riverside County Fire Department is permitted to use and disclose protected health information about you, how you can access and copy that information, how you may request amendment of that information, and how you may request restrictions on our use and disclosure of your protected health information.

Riverside County Fire Department is also required to abide by the terms of the version of this Notice currently in effect. In most situations we may use this information as described in this Notice without your permission, but there are some situations where we may use it only after we obtain your written authorization, if we are required by law to do so.

Updated Privacy Practices Notice - English
Updated Privacy Practices Notice - Spanish