Your Life, Your Rights: Healthcare
Everyone has the right to healthcare. This includes physical health and mental health services.
Rights to Healthcare
- Be treated with dignity and respect
- Have free access to an interpreter
- Have the same treatment options as everyone else
- Have the same access to healthcare as everyone else
- Make an appointment with your doctor when you need to
- Talk to your doctor about starting or stopping treatment
- Make decisions about your health
- Get health education to help you make choices
- Get emergency care when you need it even if you can’t pay
- To have your personal health record kept private
- You decide who can have access to your health information
- You can get your medical records at anytime
Resources
To help people learn about their rights to healthcare, BHDDH created two resources. The first is a one-page flyer, and the second is a guidebook.
Healthcare Flyer
The Healthcare flyer is a one-page document. It can be used as a factsheet on healthcare rights.
Healthcare Easy Read Guidebook
The Healthcare easy read guidebook is a longer document. This document explains the information on the one-page flyer in more detail.
Right Protection
Contact the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office to file a healthcare complaint by phone at (401) 274-4400 x1896 or online at www.riag.ri.gov/