Joint Notice of Privacy Practices

Your Information. Your Rights. Our Responsibilities.

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

Download the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices

Health Information Exchange

Hartford HealthCare Member Organizations currently participate in health information exchanges (HIE’s), which ultimately help enhance the quality of your care.

The goal of the HIE’s is to help participating physicians and providers give better, more efficient care to their patients by the sharing of health information across secure systems. This means that wherever a patient goes, the patient’s health information may be available to all doctors who use the HIE’s, which helps to provide safer, more coordinated patient care.

You may opt out of the Health Information Exchange by doing one of the following:

1. We have chosen to participate in the statewide health information exchange, Connie. As permitted by law, your health information will be shared with this exchange in order to provide faster access, better coordination of care and assist providers and public health officials in making more informed decisions. You may opt-out and disable access to your health information available through Connie by calling 1.866.987.5514 or completing and submitting an Opt-Out form to Connie by mail, fax, or through their website at www.conniect.org. Public health reporting and Controlled Dangerous Substances information, as part of the Connecticut Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), will still be available to providers.
2. We also participate in CTHealthLink, another secure, electronic HIE. If you do not want your health information shared and used through CTHealthLink, please go to the following website CTHealthLink - Patient Opt-Out and complete and submit the opt-out form.
3. Care Everywhere is a part of Hartford HealthCare’s Electronic Health Record (EHR). It has exchange capability with organizations and providers who participate. As permitted by law, your health information will be shared with other providers and organizations across the country. You may opt-out and disable access to your health information available through Care Everywhere by calling the Hartford HealthCare Office of Compliance and Integrity at 860.972.1573.

This Joint Notice of Privacy Practices applies to Hartford HealthCare Member Organizations

The following covered entities and their respective medical staff are part of an Organized Health Care Arrangement. If you have a question about this Notice, would like to exercise your privacy rights, or if you feel that your privacy rights have been violated, you may contact the appropriate HHC Member Organizations using the information provided below:

• Hartford HealthCare
  Privacy Officer
  80 Seymour Street
  Hartford, CT 06102
  Phone: 860.972.1573

• Hartford HealthCare Senior Services
  (Southington Care Center, The Jerome Home, The Orchards at Southington)
  45 Meriden Avenue
  Southington, CT 06489
  860.378.1222

• Hartford HealthCare at Home
  FKA VNA HealthCare/VNA East
  1290 Silas Deane Hwy
  Wethersfield, CT 06109
  203.573.1231

• Hartford HealthCare Medical Group
  1290 Silas Deane Highway, Second Fl.
  Wethersfield, CT 06109
  860.972.9849

• Hartford Hospital,
  Hartford HealthCare Rehabilitation Network,
  Institute of Living,
  Jefferson House,
  Cedar Mountain Commons
  80 Seymour Street
  Hartford, CT 06102
  860.972.1400

• Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
  540 Litchfield St.
  Torrington, CT 06790
  860.496.6879

• MidState Medical Center
  435 Lewis Avenue
  Meriden, CT 06451
  860.224.5900, Ext. 2620

• Natchaug Hospital
  189 Storrs Road
  Mansfield Center, CT 06250
  860.456.1311, Ext. 0

• Rushford Center
  883 Paddock Avenue
  Meriden, CT 06450
  860.346.0300

• SVMC Holdings, Inc.
  dba St. Vincent’s Medical Center
  2800 Main St.
  Bridgeport, CT 06606
  203.576.5164

• The Hospital of Central Connecticut
  100 Grand Street
  New Britain, CT 06050
  860.224.5900, Ext. 2620

• The William W. Backus Hospital
  326 Washington Street
  Norwich, CT 06360
  860.823.6530

• Windham Hospital
  112 Mansfield Avenue
  Willimantic, CT 06226
  860.823.6530

Download the Joint Notice of Privacy Practices