Rights & Responsibilities
Family Medical Center of MI is dedicated to quality and excellence in providing integrated, comprehensive and cost effective medical and dental health care to all regardless of their ability to pay.
Respectful Care
The Family Medical Center was created to serve the needs of your community. We want you to be an active part of your treatment here.
You need to know what you can expect from us. We want you to be informed about our policies regarding confidentiality and other issues. There are some situations, however, when the law itself determines what we must do.
We want you to know your rights as a patient of this center and to exercise them. Patients who participate in their own care create a successful outcome.
Treatment of Minors
Minors are treated with the consent of their parent or guardian. In certain circumstances, such as care for sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy, minors may authorize their own treatment (Michigan Law).
Confidential Treatment
You have a right to:
- A reasonable response to your requests for treatment within the scope of the heath center’s mission, capacity and regulations.
- Confidential treatment. You also have the right to approve or prohibit the release of any disclosures or records, except when release is required by law.
- Information about your diagnoses, treatments and prognosis. This information will help out to make informed decisions regarding your care.
- Participate in decisions about the intensity and scope of your treatment within the limits of the health center’s mission and applicable laws.
- Have your guardian, next of kin, or legally authorized responsible person exercise your rights for you as medically or legally determined.
Decisions about your Care
You have a right to:
- Care that takes into consideration your psychosocial, spiritual and cultural values.
- Accept medical care or refuse treatment to the extent permitted by law. You also have the right to be informed of the medical consequences of refusing care.
- Participate in the consideration of ethical issues the arise in your care.
- Be informed of any research or experimentation that could affect your care. You may then decide whether or not you want to participate in it.
- Be made aware of advanced directives, and to know how this organization will respond to such advance directives.