Keeping Your Personal Information Private is Important to Us

Parkwood Mennonite Home provides you with a broad variety of care services. To meet your needs and serve you well, we need to know personal information about you.

You, as an individual, have a right to know how we collect, use and disclose personal information. You have a right to expect that, to the best of our ability, your personal information held by us remains accurate, confidential and secure.

Parkwood Mennonite Home is proud of its longstanding commitment to maintaining the confidentiality and security of personal information and has implemented practices to better protect the privacy of your personal information.

Parkwood Mennonite Home collects, uses, discloses and stores facts about you and your health.

These facts are collected to help provide health care or payments for health care. They include:

• Your name, address, and your Ontario Health Care number
• Facts about your health, health care history and the health care that you have been given
• Facts about payment for your health care

We use this information and share it only with those who need to know that information. For instance, we might use it to:

• To make decisions about the types of services you need
• To serve as a means to communicate with other service providers
• To monitor the provision of services and evaluate your response to services provided
• For administration, management, strategic planning, decision-making, research, allocating of resources within the organization
• To meet legal and regulatory requirements

These are your rights:

• You may see or have access to your personal health information
• You may ask us to correct your records
• You may speak to Facility Administrator about access to your personal information, or about how it is collected, stored, used or disclosed to others.