Colorado Health and Wellness, Inc. is required, by law, to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your protected health information and to provide our patients with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information.Colorado Health and Wellness, Inc. is required, by law, to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your protected health information and to provide our patients with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your protected health information.

We may disclose your health care information to other healthcare professionals within our practice for the purpose of treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.

“On occasion, it may be necessary to seek consultation regarding your condition from other health care providers associated with Colorado Health and Wellness, Inc.”

“It is our policy to provide a substitute health care provider, authorized by Colorado Health and Wellness, Inc. to provide assessment and/or treatment to our patients, without advanced notice, in the event of your primary health care provider’s absence due to vacation, sickness, or other emergency situation.

We may disclose your health information to your insurance provider for the purpose of payment or health care operations. We may disclose your health information as necessary to comply with State Workers’ Compensation Laws. We may disclose your health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, or another person responsible for your care, about your medical condition or in the event of an emergency or of your death. As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability, reporting child abuse or neglect, reporting domestic violence, reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications, and reporting disease or infection exposure. We may disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding. We may disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person, complying with a court order or subpoena, and other law enforcement purposes We may disclose your health information to coroners or medical examiners. We may disclose your health information to organizations involved in procuring, banking, or transplanting organs and tissues. We may disclose your health information to researchers conducting research that has been approved by an Institutional Review Board. We may disclose your health information to appropriate persons to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public. We may disclose your health information for military, national security, prisoner, and government benefits purposes. If Colorado Health and Wellness, Inc. is sold or merged with another organization, your health information/record will become the property of the new owner.”