An Individual Approach

Your Specific Rights

While at Riverview Health Centre, you have the following rights:

• The right to receive care that meets established standards practice.
  • To receive your care from qualified and knowledgeable staff.
• The right to confidentiality.
  • To have your information kept private.
• The right to information.
  • To be informed of any matters that concern you including your medical condition and choices of treatment.
  • To have access to your personal health information.
• The right to express yourself freely.
  • To be informed about about how to express concern or make suggestions without fear of anything negative happening to you.
  • To communicate freely with any person.
• The right to make decisions about your personal or financial life or to choose someone else to act for you.
  • To choose whether or not you wish to participate.
  • To agree to any treatment after it has been explained to you.
  • To have the person acting for you treated respectfully.
  • To have the person acting for you receive all the information needed to make decisions for you.
• The right to live free of abuse.
  • To live in a place free of psychological, physical, financial or sexual abuse.
  • To have any allegations of abuse investigated by Riverview Health Centre or the "Protection for Persons in Care Office" without fear that anything negative will happen to you.