Patient Rights

Methodist Healthcare strives to ensure your patient rights at all times. Methodist Healthcare is committed to helping you understand your rights and responsibilities as a patient and how to participate in the choices about your health care, including treatment decisions that are made before you actually need such care. As a patient at any of our facilities, you have:

• Right to information
• Right to make decisions about care
• Right to privacy
• Right to confidentiality
• Right to records
• Right to evaluation of services
• Right to be informed of business relationships
• Right to consent or decline research
• Right to continuity of care
• Right to be informed of hospital policies and practices
• Right to have an advance directive
• Right to request interpreter services