R432-100-11. Patient Rights

(1) The facility shall inform each patient at the time of admission of patient rights and support the exercise of the patient's right to the following:

(a) to access all medical records, and to purchase at a cost not to exceed the community standard, photocopies of his record;

(b) to be fully informed of his medical health status in a language he can understand;

(c) to reasonable access to care;

(d) to refuse treatment;

(e) to formulate an advanced directive in accordance with the Advance Health Care Directive Act, UCA 75-2a;

(f) to uniform, considerate and respectful care;

(g) to participate in decision making involved in managing his health care with his physician, or to have a designated representative involved;

(h) to express complaints regarding the care received and to have those complaints resolved when possible;

(i) to refuse to participate in experimental treatment or research;

(j) to be examined and treated in surroundings designed to give visual and auditory privacy; and

(k) to be free from mental and physical abuse, and to be free from chemical and (except in emergencies) physical restraints except as authorized in writing by a licensed practitioner for a specified and limited period of time or when necessary to protect the patient from injury to himself or others.

(2) The hospital shall establish a policy and inform patients and legal representatives regarding the withholding of resuscitative services and the forgoing or withdrawing of life sustaining treatment and care at the end of life. This policy shall be consistent with state law.