Patients & Visitors

Patient Rights & Responsibilities

Illinois Valley Community Hospital recognizes the following patient rights and responsibilities:

• Individuals shall be accorded impartial access to treatment and care.
• Respect and dignity for themselves as well as for others.
• Privacy and confidentiality.
• Consideration for personal values and beliefs.
• Personal safety and security.
• Access to protective services.
• Identification of individuals providing service.
• Receipt of information concerning your diagnosis (to the degree known), treatment and any known prognosis, as well as the responsibility to provide any past or current medical information about yourself.
• Communication with people outside the hospital.
• Informed consent.
• Consultation with a specialist.
• Refusal of treatment.
• Transfer and continuity of care and the obligation to follow the recommended plan of treatment and care.
• Pain assessment and management.
• Participation in ethical questions that arise in the course of your care, including issues of conflict resolution, withholding resuscitative services, forgoing or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, and participation in investigational studies or clinical trials.
• Itemized and detailed explanation of hospital charges.
• Information regarding hospital rules and regulations.

For more detailed information, refer to the patient rights handout located in your patient education folder.