NOTICE OF RIGHTS AND PRIVACY

As a patient of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com, we want you to know the rights you have under federal and state laws.

VirtualWalkinCenter.com is committed to providing you with the best available health care and want you to know by taking an active role in your health care.

YOUR RIGHTS AS A PATIENT

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of InHouse Care LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “we,“ “us,“ or “our“) and applies solely to our users who are residents of the State of California (“consumers“ or “you“) in relation to your use of our websites, mobile applications and other resources intended for use by healthcare professionals.

We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in our Privacy Policy or in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.


Understand and exercise these rights. As a patient, you have a right to receive information in a manner that you understand. If for any reason, you do not understand or need help, assistance will be provided, including an interpreter.

Become informed of these rights as a patient in advance of, or when discontinuing, the provision of care.

Treated respectfully and receive services without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or source of payment.

Have your cultural, psychosocial, spiritual and personal values, beliefs and preferences respected.

To be called by your proper name and be told the name of the healthcare provider who has primary responsibility for your care and the names and roles of other physicians and healthcare providers involved in your care.

Receive complete information from your healthcare provider about your diagnosis and course of treatment. This information should also include outcomes of care (including unanticipated outcomes), and your prospects for recovery in terms that you or your representative can understand.

Give informed consent for any proposed treatment or procedure, including an explanation and understanding of the possible risks and benefits of the procedure or treatment.

Participate in planning for care after discharge. The medically significant risks involved in the treatment and risks involved in each.

Participate in all decisions about your healthcare.

Receive reasonable continuity of care, including referral and access to needed specialty care and other services.

Refuse treatment per federal and state laws, and be told the impact this would have on your health.

Refuse to take part in any clinical research trials.

Receive full consideration of privacy and confidentiality concerning your medical care and records.

Have your written permission obtained before your medical records can be made available to anyone not directly concerned with your care.

To access information contained in your medical record and obtain a copy of your medical records through written request.

Have your primary care physician or referring healthcare provider notified of your medical visit.

Receive an itemized bill and explanation of charges regardless of the source of payment.

Be informed of the services available.

Know the provision for after-hours care.

Formulate advance directives regarding your healthcare, and to have facility staff and practitioners who provide care in the facility comply with these directives (to the extent provided by state laws and regulations.

If the leadership of VirtualWalkinCenter.com (VWIC) does not answer your questions to your satisfaction, please contact the Connecticut Department of Health or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (800-633-4227).

Have all patient’s rights apply to the person who may have a legal responsibility to make decisions regarding medical care on behalf of the patient, including involving additional family members or a surrogate as requested or necessary.

PATIENT RESPONSIBILITIES

The care a patient receives depends partially on the patient himself. Therefore, in addition to these rights, a patient has specific responsibilities as well.

To provide accurate and complete information regarding your identity, medical history, hospitalizations, medications, dietary supplements, and current health concerns to the best of your ability.

Ask questions about your condition, treatments, procedures, clinical laboratory, and other diagnostic test results. Ask questions when you do not understand the contemplated course of care.

Immediately report any concerns or errors you may observe, including serious side effects, complications, and unexpected changes or worsening of your condition to the responsible practitioner.

Follow the treatment plan recommended by your healthcare provider, including the instructions of nurses and other health professionals as they carry out the provider’s orders. You are also responsible for the medical consequences that are a result of denying treatment or failing to follow the treatment plan.

Keep appointments and notify the facility or the responsible healthcare provider when you are unable to do so.

Assure that the financial obligations of your care are fulfilled as promptly as possible, including providing information necessary for insurance processing.

Follow the facility’s rules and regulations, including those that prohibit offensive, threatening, and/or abusive language or behavior, and the use of tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drugs or substances.

Be considerate of the rights of other patients and facility personnel and be respectful of your personal property and that of other persons in the facility.

Provide VirtualWalkinCenter.com with a copy of any advance directive or health care proxy designation.

If the leadership of VirtualWalkinCenter.com (VWIC) does not answer your questions to your satisfaction, please contact the Connecticut Department of Public Health or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (800-633-4227)

Disclaimer/Privacy

Content appearing on this Site is opinion only, and no information appearing herein should be construed as medical advice, used for diagnosis or treatment advice. The reader is advised to seek out professional medical advice. Also, the content of each post is the opinion of the post’s author and not of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com . The InHouseCareCT.com DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com is not responsible for such content.

All of the information on this website and related social media platforms is for informational purposes only. It is meant to supplement, not replace, your existing knowledge. While patient scenarios are discussed, identifying details have been changed to protect their privacy and ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. You must always follow your facility’s policies, procedures, and protocols as well as be familiar with your respective State Board of Nursing and Standard of Care.

Terms of Use

Anything you read on this blog, or anything acted up because of this blog, is subject to the terms of use. You are reading this website of your own free will. Anything you do (click, purchase, take advice, or recommendations) is your own choice and at your own risk. If you try a product recommended, follow a piece of advice, or try a service, and are not satisfied, InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com will not be able to assist you. Team members of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com are not held responsible for these or similar scenarios.

General Disclaimer

This website is the intellectual property of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com. Any information on this website reflects personal opinions and experiences and does not reflect the opinion of any author’s current or past employer. The information posted on this website is copyrighted and may not be used without the expressed written consent of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com. Please fill out a contact form if you would like permission to use any part of this copyrighted intellectual property.

Hold Harmless

We do not provide medical advice, regardless of the circumstances. Any professional or personal recommendations are based solely on personal opinion and/or experience of the author. Any of this advice or recommendations acted upon is of your own free will. Should you choose to take action based on something you read on this website, it is at your own risk, and you agree to hold the author harmless.

Privacy Statement

We use cookies to provide prompt delivery of content and serve ads. Any information collected about you during this process will be kept private. We will NEVER sell your email address to anyone or put you on a list you didn’t sign up for yourself. One thing we cannot be held responsible for, however, is the privacy practices of the various advertisers, affiliates, their audience(s), subsidiaries, or partners.

Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you leave a comment on our Site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this Site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics

InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com uses JetPack and Google Analytics to track traffic and users to the Site.

Data Used

IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, a timestamp of the event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automatic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Personally Identifiable Information: We do not collect information that personally identifies you unless you choose to provide it to us (for example, Web pages that allow you to register for a class, complete an online job application, or send an email message).

The personal information you submit is shared only with those people in our organization who need this information to respond to your question or request, and as otherwise permitted by law to allow us to operate our business or to comply with applicable laws.

As used in this Privacy Statement, personal information does not include information protected under HIPAA or applicable state laws, which is protected as described in the section “Health and Medical Information” above.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information: We collect information that does not personally identify you for various purposes (for example, website usage, traffic patterns, site performance and related statistics based on our tracking record of your visits to our website).

Activity Tracked

Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs, and search engine terms and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner can force this feature to honor the DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

Google Analytics

InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com uses Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data such as age, gender, and interests to better understand the behavior of our customers and work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences… These companies also use automated technologies to collect information when you click on our ads, which helps track and manage the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

You may opt-out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and edit or opt-out your Google Display Network ads’ preferences at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

Who we share your data with:

InHouseCareCT.com DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com and WordPress do not share any personal data with anyone.

How long we retain your data:

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data:

If you have an account on this Site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data:

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information:

If you have any privacy concerns, you can use the contact form to email us.

Additional information

For Users with accounts located in European Data Region, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 24th, 1995 (the Directive), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. From May 25th, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27th, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and InHouse Care LLC processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR.

Medical Information

InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com is sensitive to protecting the privacy of our website visitors.

During your visit to our website, remember that the medical and health information presented here is intended to be general in nature and should not be viewed as a substitute for professional advice.

Please consult with a health care professional for all matters relating to personal medical and health care issues.

Specific health and medical information about you are protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and applicable state law.

This information may be provided by you online or offline or may be collected by us from other methods such as through a health care provider. We protect covered health and medical information as required by HIPAA and applicable state law.

Similarly, we may use protected health and medical information as permitted by HIPAA and applicable state law.

To read more about our privacy practices regarding health and medical information under HIPAA, please click here [Notice of Privacy Practices]. In the event of any conflict between our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices and this Website Privacy Statement, the terms of our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices shall control.

Security/Confidentiality

No transmission of data over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. We will, however, use some physical security methods (such as locks and alarm systems); electronic security methods (passwords and encryption methods); and procedural methods (rules regarding the handling and use of information) to protect the security and integrity of information submitted through this Web site.

Email

Most email does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It is possible that your email could be viewed inappropriately by another Internet user. If you choose to provide us with your email, any misaddressing may result in other intercepting, altering, forwarding, or using the information without authorization. If you wish to keep your information completely private, you should not use email.​

From time to time, a representative from InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com website may wish to deliver information to you via email. In addition, InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com Community Relations Department and partners may occasionally distribute news and announcements via email.

Please note, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise share our email lists with others.

You may remove your name from any list you have registered for using our website’s established method.
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Links to Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites that are not managed or controlled by us. These links are provided for your convenience only. We do not review, endorse or take responsibility for the content of these other websites. If you choose to access such sites, you are subject to the privacy policies of those sites.

If you receive an email at work, your employer may have the right to save and read your email; similarly, your Internet service provider may have the right to save and read your email.

If you share your email account, others may view your emails. Email can be used unknowingly to spread computer viruses.​

Information From Children

Our website is not intended to attract or collect information from children under the age of 16 unless they receive verifiable parental consent. If you think we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16 through this website, please contact us immediately.

Printing or Downloading Information

Unless otherwise stated, you may print or download information from our website for personal, noncommercial use only. You must, however, identify the source of the material and include a statement that the contents are protected by copyright law.

Medical Disclaimer

THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MEDICAL ADVICE

All information, content, and material of this website is for informational purposes only and are not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider.

MEDICAL EMERGENCY
If you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.

WEBSITE INFORMATION INTENDED FOR USE BY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS

InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com is geared toward providing information to industry professionals—NOT CONSUMERS—regarding the capabilities and ranges of products of InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com and members of the group. The information contained on this website is compiled from a variety of sources and is not considered complete. The information accessed through this website is provided “AS IS” and without any warranties, whether expressed or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, regarding any information or other material displayed on this website, whether authored by the InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com or others; and the operation of this website, including any warranty of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.

InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com makes no representation or warranty as to the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy or suitability of the information contained in this website and does not represent and/or warrant against human or machine error, omissions, delays, interruptions or losses, including the loss of any data.

General Medical website info

The information contained in this website is not intended to recommend the self-management of health problems or wellness. It is not intended to endorse or recommend any particular type of medical treatment. Should any reader have any healthcare-related questions, promptly call or consult your physician or healthcare provider.

No information contained in this website should be used by any reader to disregard medical and/or health-related advice or provide a basis to delay a consultation with a physician or a qualified healthcare provider.

You should not use any information contained in this website to initiate the use of dietary supplements, vitamins, herbal and nutritional products or homeopathic medicine, and other described products before consulting first with a physician or healthcare provider. InHouse Care LLC DBA VirtualWalkinCenter.com.