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	Guide to Federal Records - Records of St. Elizabeths Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Records documenting the relationship between the Department of the Interior and the hospital, 1902-43; and between the District of Columbia and the hospital, 1906-46.
		Records, 1903-28, relating to investigations of the hospital conducted in 1906, 1919, and 1926.
		Records of Superintendent Dale Cameron relating to a 1963 investigation of the hospital, 1963- 64.
	www.archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/418.html?template=print (867 words)

	Colorado State Archives - Arapahoe County Poor Hospital Records
		The Arapahoe County, Colorado, Hospital was renamed the Denver General Hospital in 1912 when the county hospital and city health department fell under the same jurisdiction.
		The hospital recorded 35 birth during the year, and the principal diseases treated were consumption, pneumonia, rheumatism, typhoid fever, and insanity.
		A complex of hospital buildings was built in the 1890s, one being the power plant smokestack which was 9-stories tall.
	www.colorado.gov /dpa/doit/archives/hospital (831 words)

	Newark City Hospital Records - University Libraries Special Collections
		With 25 beds, the hospital was opened to the sick on September 4, 1882 and was incorporated on February 23, 1883.
		Construction of the new hospital began in 1898; the hospital was occupied in 1890.
		In 1925, the hospital was enlarged by the addition of the north wing, a four-story structure with a basement.
	www.umdnj.edu /librweb/speccoll/NwkCityHosp.html (1408 words)

	Office of the Special Assistant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Collaborating with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Personnel Record Center and the Department of the Army, the office is creating a consolidated database to retrieve hospital records for all patients treated in Army, Navy and Air Force Gulf War hospitals.
		Defense Department guidelines call for hospital in-patient treatment records to be retired within a span of four to 10 years, depending upon the facility’s record disposition policy to the National Personnel Records Center where they are archived under the name of the hospital transferring the records.
		After the war, veterans seeking their medical records had to know the name of the facility that treated them during the war in order to obtain the record from the hospital or the National Personnel Records Center.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /news/na_medrecord_080498.html (874 words)

	The Collection - Hospital and Health Records
		Records relating to doctors employed by the Health Department and its predecessor agencies can generally only be found in the Department's general files series.
		Records relating to medical staff prior to the establishment of the Department may be obtained through the records of the Colonial Secretary's Office (CSO).
		Records relating to Local Boards of Health may also be found in the Health Department general files series.
	www.sro.wa.gov.au /collection/hospital.asp (2157 words)

	Getting Your Hospital/Medical Records
		In the event that the hospital proposes to charge you more than 50 cents a page ask the hospital's Medical Record Administrator what the copying charge is per page when hospital records are requested by a physician.
		There is no justification for the charges to be different -- a patient's retention of a copy of his or her hospital records insures continuity of care.
		If the hospital persists in charging you a higher rate, contact your local newspaper's health editor and suggest that the newspaper publicize this obvious effort to place obstacles in the way of patients' access to their own medical records.
	www.aimsusa.org /GettingYourRecords.htm (648 words)

	CNN.com - Hospital released Bryant accuser's records - Jan. 23, 2004
		Medical records not directly related to a sexual assault charge leveled by a 19-year-old woman against NBA star Kobe Bryant were given by mistake to his attorneys, it was revealed Friday in a Colorado courtroom.
		The records were sent by a hospital in Eagle and include notes about an emergency room visit by the woman May 30, a month before the alleged incident, a lawyer for the hospital said.
		On Friday, the hospital's lawyer asked to have those records returned, but instead Eagle County District Judge Terry Ruckriegel ordered that the copies be destroyed and ordered the lawyers involved to remove the information from their minds.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/01/23/bryant.case/index.html (778 words)

	National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis - National Personnel Records Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records (NPRC-MPR) is the repository of millions of military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century.
		(Records prior to WWI are in Washington, DC.) NPRC (MPR) also stores medical treatment records of retirees from all services, as well as records for dependent and other persons treated at naval medical facilities.
		Information from the records is made available upon written request (with signature and date) to the extent allowed by law.
	archives.gov /facilities/mo/st_louis/military_personnel_records.html (650 words)

	Liverpool Record Office - Hospital Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The hospital wings of these workhouses increased in size and patients were admitted to the workhouse hospitals for treatment rather than being admitted as workhouse inmates.
		Because some of Liverpool's hospitals started life as workhouses and the changeover from workhouse to hospital was a gradual one, researchers should be aware that some of the hospital collections contain records of people who were admitted as workhouse inmates rather than hospital patients.
		All the hospital records have been catalogued and their access conditions are stated in the catalogues which are available in the search room and also in online form though the City Council website at http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk (some Merseyside Record Office catalogues are not online).
	archive.liverpool.gov.uk /leaflets/hospital.html (2075 words)

	Title 22 - §1711. Patient access to hospital medical records
		If the hospital is of the opinion that release of the records to the patient would be detrimental to the health of the patient, the hospital shall advise the patient that copies of the records will be made available to the patient's authorized representative upon presentation of a proper authorization signed by the patient.
		If an authorized representative for a patient requests, in writing, that a hospital provide the authorized representative with a copy of the patient's medical records and presents a proper authorization from the patient for the release of the information, copies must be provided to the authorized representative within a reasonable time.
		Reasonable costs incurred by the hospital in making and providing copies of medical records and additions to medical records must be borne by the requesting person and the hospital may require payment prior to responding to the request.
	janus.state.me.us /legis/statutes/22/title22sec1711.html (290 words)

	GW Hospital : Medical Records Policy
		The George Washington University Hospital retains hospital based medical records in accordance with the District of Columbia's Municipal Regulations.
		All records are maintained for not less than 10 years following the date of discharge, after which they are destroyed.
		If the patient was a minor at the time of last visit, records are maintained for a minimum of 10 years or until the person is 22 years of age.
	www.gwhospital.com /p3879.html (81 words)

	Hospital Resords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hospital Corpsman Renaldo Galang from Subic Bay, Philippines, verifies data entries in a few of the 5,000 crewmembers' medical records aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).
		The records archived at the center represent approximately 80 percent of the highest estimated admissions from the theater.
		Each record was subjected to a rigorous quality assurance review on a rotational basis, insuring at least four quality assurance reviews.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /news/dquarterly/winter02/hospital_records.htm (1121 words)

	Police examining Apollo Hospital records
		A day after registering an FIR against Apollo Hospital for furnishing false information in the Rahul Mahajan case, Delhi police verified hospital records on Saturday.
		Police registered the FIR under section 182 of the IPC against doctors and management of the hospital at the Sarita Vihar police station in South Delhi, following a city court order to the effect on Thursday.
		The court had allowed police to seize relevant records of the hospital, including registers and pathological reports, if required for the probe.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/jun/10rahul1.htm (198 words)

	Request For Hospital Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The hospital records you are primarily concerned with here are those relation to birth.
		If you have your birth name, send a letter requesting hospital records in that name (see sample below) Your letter will need to be notarized, as the hospital may not release records to anyone other then the patient or his or her designated agent.
		If the hospital where you were born proves to reluctant to release the information, ask your doctor to request the records.
	www.peoplefindernow.com /hospital.htm (583 words)

	Your Right to Your Hospital/Medical Records
		A request for medical records must be made in writing to either your individual physician or the health care facility where you were treated.
		The court upon such application and after an in camera review of the materials provided including the determination and record of the committee, and after providing all parties an opportu- nity to be heard, shall determine whether there exists a reasonable basis for the denial of access.
		Members of such committees shall be appointed by the commissioner from a list of nominees submitted by statewide associations of providers in the particular licensed profession involved; provided, however, that, with respect to patient information maintained by a psychiatrist, the list of nominees shall be composed of psychiatrists.
	www.aimsusa.org /YourRightToRecords.htm (1418 words)

	National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis - Hospital Records for Active Duty Personnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Clinical (inpatient) records are filed at NPRC (MPR) by the name of the hospital in which the member was treated.
		An exception to this would be those clinical records (dating back as early as 1957 for Army hospitals, 1951 for Air Force hospitals) which were maintained at Clinical Record Libraries at selected treatment facilities.
		Note: By comparison, outpatient records (referred to as active duty health records) which include induction and separation physicals, routine medical care when the person was not admitted to a hospital, dental, and mental health records were retired to NPRC (MPR) in the Official Military Personnel File until the early 1990s.
	www.archives.gov /st-louis/military-personnel/public/active-duty-medical-records.html (529 words)

	Confederate Hospital at Wilmington NC
		This 200 bed hospital, known as General Hospital No. 4, operated as an army hospital up until the fall of Wilmington to Federal troops on 22 February 1865 with the exception of its use for civilian yellow fever patients for the last four months of 1862.
		The microfilmed records of the hospital have been obtained by the NHCPL from the National Archives (Record Group 109) and are being transcribed by R. Cooke into spreadsheet format.
		An extremely valuable aspect of these records is the inclusion in most cases of the patient's home town.
	www.onhgs.org /confedhosp.htm (428 words)

	Finding Aid to the Sydenham Hospital Records, 1909-1949
		From 1909 to its closing in 1949, Sydenham Hospital was maintained by the Baltimore City Health Department for the isolation and treatment of communicable diseases.
		Records are complete for the years 1909 to 1924, but because of the size of the collection, only a sample of every tenth record for the years 1924 to 1949 was retained; the hospital registers for the entire period have been preserved, however.
		The Sydenham Hospital records were released by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates to the National Library of Medicine in April, 1968.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /hmd/manuscripts/ead/sydenham.html (930 words)

	Stanford Hospital And Clinics - Stanford University Medical Center - Patient Privacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As a patient of the Hospital, the care and treatment you receive is recorded in a medical record.
		In addition, an adult patient of the Hospital who believes that an item or statement in his/her medical record is incorrect or incomplete has the right to provide the Hospital with a written addendum to his/her record.
		Request restricting the Hospital from reporting your identity and condition to an agency or organization where the Hospital is required by law to do so.
	www.stanfordhospital.com /forpatients/medicalrecords/patientprivacy.html (1657 words)

	Hospital takes records paperless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In fact, it might be tough to find a scrap of paper attached to anything in the 172-bed southwest Phoenix hospital, which has eliminated the need for manual charting by its nurses, technicians and physicians from the time it opened 15 months ago.
		John Rivers, president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, was a member of the task force.
		The downside to electronic medical records is when the computer system goes down and users are forced to go back to charting manually.
	www.azcentral.com /community/swvalley/articles/0426swv-banner0426Z5.html (622 words)

	More Inpatient Hospital Records Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When records are retired to the National Personnel Records Center, they are categorized by the name of the hospital, not in the individual's name.
		Veterans seeking their medical records would have to know the name of the facility that treated them during the war in order to obtain the record from the hospital or the National Personnel Records Center.
		The lack of a standardized method among the services on how these records are retired adds further complication to the deposition and storage procedures.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /news/na_medrecords_9nov99.html (460 words)

	White Oak - Hospital Records
		Obtaining hospital records will not help you locate your surrendered child, but it will allow you to confirm your child's date of birth (and might allow you to access a copy of your child's baby footprints, too).
		If the hospital refuses to provide the records to you, it may be necessary to ask your personal physician for assistance (in some cases a treating physician will have to make the actual request for the records).
		In addition to the birth mother's name and address at the time of your birth, these records may list next of kin, the birth mother's date of birth, her social security number (births after the late 60s only), and other background information.
	www.whiteoakfoundation.org /hospitalinfo.htm (340 words)

	How To Get Hospital Medical Records in Florida
		Access to hospital records and records of ambulatory care centers is governed by Florida Statute Section 395.3025.
		A patient whose records are copied or searched for the purpose of continuing to receive medical care is not required to pay a charge for copying or for the search.
		The facility is also required to allow the patient to examine the original records in its possession, or microfilms or other suitable reproduction of the records upon reasonable terms that shall be imposed to assure the records will not be damaged, destroyed or altered.
	www.floridamalpractice.com /medrecordshospital.htm (301 words)

	Weiss Memorial Hospital - Medical Records
		The department is responsible for maintaining and protecting the medical records of all Weiss patients.
		HIM releases medical records to people who want copies of records for further care or other reasons.
		A medical record technician oversees the proper distribution of dictation in house.
	www.weisshospital.org /services/medicalrecords.cfm (322 words)

	Port Cities: - Hospital Records
		Prior to the setting up of the National Health Service in 1948, if you needed hospital treatment and were unable to pay for private treatment, your options were to try to obtain treatment either at a voluntary hospital or at a public hospital run by the local authorities.
		Voluntary hospitals in Liverpool had been in existence since the setting up of the Liverpool Infirmary (later the Liverpool Royal Infirmary) in 1749.
		Voluntary hospitals were able to offer only limited free treatment; patients were expected to pay what they could afford or to reimburse expenses at a later date.
	www.mersey-gateway.org /server.php?show=ConNarrative.186&chapterId=1011 (200 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. drops fight to get abortion records - Apr 27, 2004
		The Justice Department had argued the records were central to claims by the law's challengers that the procedure is medically necessary.
		Casey agreed with the government that the medical records were relevant to deciding the case, but an appeals court had temporarily blocked the judge's contempt order against the hospital for refusing to produce the records.
		Gowan said the government chose to end the drawn-out battle over the records because of indications that the hospital was prepared to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/04/27/abortion.records/index.html (447 words)

	AIM25: Royal London Hospital: ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL RECORDS
		Executive authority of the Hospital was at first split between several officers: the Secretary, the Steward, the Apothecary and the Chaplain; all exercised varying degrees of authority at different times.
		The Hospital was granted a Royal title in 1990 and became known as the Royal London Hospital.
		Some clinical and patient records, 1905-1965, are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine Archives and Manuscripts Department; administrative records, 1897-1947, are held by London Metropolitan Archives.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/23/3899.htm (1299 words)

	Medical Records - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
		Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is required under the State of California's Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to obtain an original, complete and properly executed Authorization for Release of Health Information (PDF) form before we may allow inspection or provide a copy of a patient's records to anyone, including the patient or their representative.
		While many parents request their child's entire medical record, our experience has shown that the summary information in documents such as Discharge Summaries, Operative Reports, and History and Physicals contain the information that most people are seeking.
		Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
	www.lpch.org /forPatientsVisitors/MedicalRecords/index.html (540 words)

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