Duties of the patient
Every person who goes to a Hospital Center seeking Medical Care must know the Duties that obligate them at the time of requesting said care.
HOSPITAL POVISA, Public Limited Company, in compliance with General Health Law 14/86, Galician Law 3/2001 on Informed Consent and Clinical History, as well as Law 3/2005 that modifies it, State Law 41/ 2002 on Informed Consent and Clinical History and Health Law 8/2008 of Galicia, and Regulation 2016/679, of April 27, General Data Protection, informs you about the rights and duties of the patient who comes to this hospital, and which are included in the provisions cited
-Take care of the facilities and collaborate in maintaining the habitability of health institutions.
-Take responsibility for the proper use of the benefits offered by the health system.
-State, where appropriate in writing, your refusal to the treatment proposed by the hospital, as well as sign the voluntary discharge that the hospital will present to you in the event of said refusal.
-Provide data about your physical condition or health in a loyal and true manner, collaborating with medical personnel in your care.
-Accept discharge when the care process has ended, when it has been proven that the patient's clinical situation would not improve by prolonging their stay, or when the complexity of the process makes it advisable to transfer them to a reference center.
-Leave a written record, if applicable, of the refusal to be informed.
patient rights
Every person who goes to a hospital seeking medical attention must know the rights that protect them at the time of requesting said care.
HOSPITAL POVISA, Public Limited Company, in compliance with General Health Law 14/86, Galician Law 3/2001 on Informed Consent and Clinical History, as well as Law 3/2005 that modifies it, State Law 41/ 2002 on Informed Consent and Clinical History and Health Law 8/2008 of Galicia, and Regulation 2016/679, of April 27, General Data Protection, informs you about the rights and duties of the patient who comes to this hospital, and which are included in the provisions cited.
-Respect for their personality, human dignity and privacy.
-Information about the health services that you can access and the necessary requirements for their use.
-Confidentiality of all information related to your process and your stay in public and private health institutions that collaborate with the public system.
-Be warned if the prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures applied to you can be used based on a teaching or research project, which in no case may entail additional danger to your health.
-To be assigned a doctor, whose name will be announced, who will be your main interlocutor with the healthcare team. In case of absence, another doctor on the team will assume such responsibility.
-To use the means of complaint and proposal of suggestions within the established deadlines. In one case or another, you must receive a written response within the deadlines established by regulation.
-To the free choice of doctor and other qualified health workers, in accordance with the conditions contemplated in current health legislation. To be supplied with medications or health products that are considered necessary to promote, preserve or restore your health, in the terms established by regulation by the State or Autonomous Administration.
-To decide freely, after receiving adequate information, between the available clinical options and to refuse treatment except in the cases determined by law, and must state said refusal in writing.
-To know, on the occasion of any action in the field of their health, all the information available about it, except for the cases excepted by the Law and to have their right not to be informed respected.
-The right to health information described in the previous point may be limited by the proven existence of a state of therapeutic need. Therapeutic necessity will be understood as the doctor's ability to act professionally without first informing the patient when, for objective reasons, knowledge of his or her own situation could seriously harm his or her health, leaving a record of said circumstance in the medical history and communicating his or her decision to people. linked to the patient.
-Free choice between the options presented, consent being required
free and voluntary of the patient, which will be verbal as a general rule and will be provided in writing in the following cases: surgical intervention, invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and, in general, application of procedures that involve risks or inconveniences of notable and foreseeable negative repercussions on the patient's health. Informed consent will not be necessary when there is a risk to public health, and when there is a serious immediate risk to the physical or mental integrity of the patient and it is not possible to obtain their authorization, and when circumstances permit, their family members or parents must be consulted. the people actually linked to him.
-To have a written record of your entire process and once it is completed, you will be given a discharge report.
-To be provided with certificates accrediting your health status
All staff at the Ribera Povisa Hospital wear the official uniform and carry identification cards. Our center is accredited for university training, therefore, students in internships from the Schools of Nursing and Resident Internal Physicians (MIR), in training development of their respective specialty, may intervene with duly supervised assistance.
-Take care of the facilities and collaborate in maintaining the habitability of health institutions.
-Take responsibility for the proper use of the benefits offered by the health system.
-State, where appropriate in writing, your refusal to the treatment proposed by the hospital, as well as sign the voluntary discharge that the hospital will present to you in the event of said refusal.
-Provide data about your physical condition or health in a loyal and true manner, collaborating with medical personnel in your care.
-Accept discharge when the care process has ended, when it has been proven that the patient's clinical situation would not improve by prolonging their stay, or when the complexity of the process makes it advisable to transfer them to a reference center.
-Leave a written record, if applicable, of the refusal to be informed.
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