Patient Rights

As a patient, you have the right to:

• Understand your rights and responsibilities.
• Patient- and family-centered care that is safe, considerate and high-quality.
• Clear information about your health status, treatment and care, benefits, risks and care-givers.
• Take part in decisions about your care, treatment, services and discharge.
• Have help making an advance directive and have your wishes as expressed in your advance directive honored.
• Confidentiality and privacy in all matters, including visitor restrictions, on request.
• Safety and security in an environment that offers dignity, including freedom from neglect or mistreatment.
• Assessment and management of pain.
• WPrompt response to concerns, complaints or requests for help, without fear of reprisal.

Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) respects, protects and supports each patient’s rights, recognizing that each patient is an individual with unique needs. We do not restrict, limit or deny care or visitation on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, citizenship status or any other basis protected by law.