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Parents’ Bill of Rights
1. To inform the hospital of the name of your child’s primary care
provider, if known, and have this information documented in your
child’s medical record.
2. To be assured our hospital will only admit pediatric patients to the
extent consistent with our hospital’s ability to provide qualified staff,
space and size appropriate equipment necessary for the unique
needs of pediatric patients.
3. To allow at least one parent or guardian to remain with your child at
all times, to the extent possible given your child’s health and safety
needs.
4. That all test results completed during your child’s admission
or emergency room visit be reviewed by a physician, physician
assistant, or nurse practitioner who is familiar with your child’s
presenting condition.
5. For your child not to be discharged from our hospital or emergency
room until any tests that could reasonably be expected to yield
critical value results are reviewed by a physician, physician
assistant, and/or nurse practitioner and communicated to you or
other decision makers, and your child, if appropriate. Critical value
results are results that suggest a life-threatening or otherwise
significant condition that requires immediate medical attention.
6. For your child not to be discharged from our hospital or emergency
room until you or your child, if appropriate, receives a written
discharge plan, which will also be verbally communicated to you
and your child or other medical decision makers. The written
discharge plan will specifically identify any critical results of
laboratory or other diagnostic tests ordered during your child’s stay
and will identify any other tests that have not yet been concluded.
As a parent, legal guardian or person with decision-
making authority for a pediatric patient receiving care in
this hospital, you have the right, consistent with the law,
to the following:
7. To be provided critical value results and the discharge plan for
your child in a manner that reasonably ensures that you, your child
(if appropriate), or other medical decision makers understand the
health information provided in order to make appropriate health
decisions.
8. For your child’s primary care provider, if known, to be provided all
laboratory results of this hospitalization or emergency room visit.
9. To request information about the diagnosis or possible diagnoses
that were considered during this episode of care and complications
that could develop as well as information about any contact that
was made with your child’s primary care provider.
10. To be provided, upon discharge of your child from the hospital or
emergency department, with a phone number that you can call
for advice in the event that there are complications or you have
questions.
Public Health Law (PHL) 2803(i)(g) Patients’ Rights 10NYCRR, Section 405.7
