Updated 10/01/2026
ECPS is committed to maintaining your personal health information in a confidential manner. Each time you receive services through ECPS, a record of these services is made. Although this information is provided to the healthcare professionals who work with ECPS that contribute to your care, the privacy of your health information and your access to it are protected by federal and state regulations.
Access Your Records
There are many good reasons why you might want to access your health records:
– To provide past medical history and treatment information to new healthcare providers who will be caring for you.
– To ensure the accuracy of the information contained in your record.
– To know what is being released when you authorized disclosure of your records to another party.
To Request Access or a Copy of Your Records:
Contact your Counselor or Therapist to obtain a form entitled “Client Request to Review or Obtain Copy of Health Information.”
If you believe that information in your record is incomplete or incorrect, you may request an amendment by:
– Contacting the person who made the entry (your Counselor/ Therapist,) pointing out the error, and asking them for an amendment.
– Your Counselor or Therapist will assist you in completing the health record amendment form.
All ECPS staff has been trained regarding HIPAA’s privacy regulations. Please do not hesitate to contact our staff with any questions you might have in regard to these regulations.
HIPAA Explained
Generally, you should be able to view, amend, and obtain copies of health information documents collected and kept about you. This was not always the law in all 50 states. Now the federal government has passed legislation to protect medical privacy and client access to health records. This federal rule, which covered medical information in any format – written, spoken, or electronically – is entitled the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA.) Healthcare providers such as ECPS are required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy regulations.
Your Rights
– To request limits on uses and disclosures of your health information.
– To choose how we send health information to you or how we contact you.
– To see or to get a copy of your protected health information.
– To receive a list of certain disclosures of your health information that we have made.
– To ask to correct or update your health information.
– To get a paper copy of our “Notice of Privacy Practices.”
Please contact your Counselor or Therapist or the office if you have any questions or concerns regarding the information contained in this section.
