Community resources: - Christiana Care Health System

Lawsuits and disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may share medicalinformation about you if we get a court or administrative order. We may also share yourmedical information in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process.Every effort will be made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting theinformation.Law enforcement. We may release medical information if asked to do so by a law enforcementofficial:•In response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons or similar process;•To identify or find a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person;•To report a crime; the location of the crime or victims; or to identity or locate the personwho committed the crime.Coroners, medical examiners, and funeral directors. We may release medical information to acoroner or medical examiner. This may be needed, for example, to identify a person who hasdied or find out the reason they died.National security and intelligence activities. We may release medical information about you toauthorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence and other national securityactivities authorized by law.Protective services for the President and others. We may give out medical information aboutyou to certain federal officials so they can protect the President, other authorized persons orforeign heads of state to conduct special investigations.Prisoners. If you are a prisoner of a correctional institution or under the custody of a lawenforcement official, we may release medical information about you to the correctionalinstitution or law enforcement official. This release would be necessary (1) for the institution toprovide you with health care; (2) to protect your health and safety or the health and safety ofothers; (3) for the safety and security of the correctional institution; or (4) to obtain payment forservices provided to you.Your rights regarding medical information about you.You have the following rights regarding your medical information:Right to inspect and copy. You have the right to look at and get a copy of your medicalinformation for as long as we keep your records. This includes medical and billing records. Toread or get a copy of your health information, please submit your request in writing to VNAmedical records department. If you request a copy of your information, we may charge a fee forthe costs of copying, mailing or other supplies we use to fulfill your request.We will respond to your request within 30 days if the information is located in our office andwithin 60 days if it is located off-site. We will notify you in writing if more time is needed. Thisnotification will explain the reason for the delay and when you can expect to have a finalanswer.23