Joint Notice of Privacy Practices

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can access this information.

This Joint Notice of Privacy Practices is provided to you as a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It describes the limits to which we may use or disclose your protected health information, with whom that information may be shared, and the safeguards we have in place to protect it. This notice also describes your rights to access and amend your protected health information. You have the right to approve or refuse the release of specific information outside of our system, unless the release is required or authorized by law or regulation.

If you have a compliance concern or wish to make a report, please call:
425-690-3466

Please read below:
VMC prohibits retaliation against anyone who in good faith reports legal or ethical concerns.

If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911. You can use this confidential hotline to report concerns regarding the privacy of patient information report suspected noncompliance with VMC policies request information about VMC, compliance requirements or patient privacy rights.

You may leave an anonymous message, or you may leave your name and phone number if you leave your phone number a compliance professional will return your call within one business day if you were calling for other reasons, please visit www.Valleymed.org and click on contact us for a list of contact phone numbers. For a copy of our notice of privacy practices, please visit our website and search for “Notice of Privacy”. Thank you.

Read our Joint Notice of Privacy Practices