THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR TREATMENT MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR TREATMENT MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is required by law to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your health information and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information. Please also respect the privacy of others you encounter in treatment.

Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center collects health information about you and stores it in an electronic health record. This is your medical record. The medical record is the property of Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center, but the information in the medical record belongs to you. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center to maintain the privacy of your medical record. HIPAA generally requires that any uses or disclosures of information in your medical record be limited to the minimum necessary to the purposes of the uses or disclosures. HIPAA also provides you certain rights with respect to the information in your medical record which are described below.

Information relating to your treatment at Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is protected by federal regulations specific to drug and alcohol treatment, which are known as 42 CFR Part 2. These regulations protect the confidentiality of information relating to the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient in a drug or alcohol treatment program. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center may not disclose records relating to your treatment without your written consent, except in narrowly limited circumstances. Under 42 CFR Part 2, the terms of a written consent to disclose information must specify the scope and types of information to be disclosed, the parties to whom the information may be disclosed, the purpose of the disclosure and the timeframe of the consent. You may revoke consent to disclose information relating to drug and alcohol verbally or in writing at any time.

Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center may ask for your written consent to disclose treatment information for certain purposes, including releasing treatment information to or obtaining information from your other medical providers, obtaining payment from insurance or other payers, contacting your family either for treatment purposes or in the case of a medical or other emergency. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center will not disclose your treatment information for these purposes without your consent.

Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center may disclose treatment information without your written consent under certain narrow circumstances as permitted by 42 CFR Part 2. For treatment purposes, Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is permitted to use and disclose treatment information internally and to entities with which it shares administrative control. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is permitted to share treatment information as necessary with qualified service organizations that agree to maintain the confidentiality of the information. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center also may disclose treatment information to outside auditors, regulatory agencies, and evaluators and for certain research purposes. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center may disclose treatment information without your written consent when necessary in a life-threatening medical emergency and may disclose to report a crime on the premises or against Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center personnel. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center also may disclose patient information without consent where the state mandates child abuse and neglect reporting; when cause of death is being reported; or when required by a valid court order that contains specific required findings. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center Center may contact you to share information about Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center’s treatment services or to send you reminder notices of future appointments for your treatment.

I. Your Health Information Rights
In addition to protecting privacy and confidentiality, HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 afford you the following rights with respect to your medical record and drug or alcohol treatment information:
You have the right to a paper copy of this written notice of Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center’s privacy practices.
You have a right to request a copy of your treatment record or to receive your health information through a reasonable alternative means or at an alternative location. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center requires that all such requests be put in writing. A reasonable fee will be charged for copying your health information.
You have a right to request that Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center amend health information that is incorrect or incomplete. If Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center determines not to amend the health information, it will provide you with an explanation of the reason for the denial and your rights to disagree with the denial.
You have a right to request restrictions on otherwise permitted uses and disclosures of your health information. Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is not obligated to comply with such requests.
You may request that Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center provide you with a written accounting of all disclosures made by Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center during a specific time period (not to exceed 6 years). Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center asks that such requests be made in writing on a form provided by our facility. Please note that an accounting will not apply to any of the following types of disclosures: disclosures made with your written consent for reasons of treatment, payment or health care operations; disclosures made to you or your legal representative, or any other individual involved with your care. You will not be charged for your first accounting request in any 12-month period. However, for any requests that you make thereafter, you will be charged a reasonable, cost-based fee.

II. Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices
Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center reserves the right to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future, and to make the new provisions effective for all information that it maintains, including information that was created or received prior to the date of such amendment. Until amendment is made, Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center is required by law to comply with this Notice. Should our privacy practices change, we will provide all current and future patients with a copy of the revised Notice of Privacy Practices

Effective November 24, 2020

III. Complaints Regarding Privacy Practices
Complaints about this Notice of Privacy Practices or how Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center handles your health information should be directed to:

Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center
38 Co Rd 362
Oxford, MS 38655

If you are not satisfied with the manner in which this office handles a complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to one of the following:

Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Civil Rights
200 Independence Avenue, SW Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, DC 20201

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Division
239 N Lamar St # 901
Jackson, MS 39201

You may also address your complaint to one of the regional U.S Department of Health and Human Services Offices for Civil Rights. A list of these offices can be found online at: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/addresses.html

Text Message System Privacy Policy

The Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center Text Message System Privacy Policy is intended to clarify the details of our text message alert service, and how your information is utilized when you participate. It is governed by our overall Privacy Policy and may be changed at any time. Please continue to visit this page for relevant updates. By signing up for and continuing to utilize our alerts service, you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy in all its versions. If you would like to end your use of our service and have your information deleted, please follow the unsubscribe instructions outlined in your signup text.

Your Privacy

When you sign up for Stonewater text alerts, your contact information will be used for communication purposes only. Stonewater will not sell, exchange, or otherwise release your personal information (name, e-mail address, mailing address) to outside parties. In some rare cases, however, we may share your information with other third parties without notifying you. 

These situations may include: 

Business Events: In the event of a corporate sale, merger, or similar business event, your contact information may be transferred to new ownership in order to keep you updated as requested. By using our service, you acknowledge and accept that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer or successor of Stonewater may continue to use your information for the purpose of communication.

Consultants and Related Third Parties: Stonewater may at times use outside vendors to perform business tasks such as alerts. Such vendors will be legally bound to protect the confidentiality of your information and will only have access to that information as necessary to execute alerts.

Legal Requirements: Stonewater may also disclose your information if required to do so by law or if such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of residents or the public, or to protect against future legal liability.

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
If you wish to be removed from receiving future communications, you can opt out by texting STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE.

Technical Details

From Salesmsg: “Your data is stored in the Amazon Web Services datacenter utilized by SalesMsg. More on AWS security. Salesmsg uses Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to store user data in the cloud. Salesmsg encrypts the database data stored on Salesmsg’s Amazon RDS DB instance under a customer master key (CMK) in AWS KMS. User data is retained only as long as it is necessary to properly operate the Salesmsg application.” For more information, click here.

Questions?

If you believe that Stonewater has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us by postal mail at Stonewater Adolescent Recovery at 38 County Road 362 Oxford, MS 38655 and we will use reasonable efforts to remedy the problem.

Last Updated
June 29, 2023