HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
Notice of Privacy Practices
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Effective date: October 1, 2026
The Wellness Abode
1611 S Melrose Dr., Ste. A, Vista, CA 92081
Privacy contact: clinic@thewellnessabode.com
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Effective date: October 1, 2026
The Wellness Abode
1611 S Melrose Dr., Ste. A, Vista, CA 92081
Privacy contact: clinic@thewellnessabode.com
We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (“PHI”), to give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices, and to follow the terms of the notice currently in effect.
How we may use and disclose your PHI
How we may use and disclose your PHI
- Treatment: to provide, coordinate, and manage your care, including sharing information with the licensed prescriber who evaluates you and the pharmacy that fills your prescription.
- Payment: to bill for and collect payment for services.
- Health care operations: to run our practice, such as quality review, training, and administration.
- Required by law: when federal, state, or local law requires disclosure, including to health oversight agencies and in response to valid court orders.
- Public health and safety: to report certain conditions, to prevent a serious threat to health or safety, and as otherwise permitted by law.
- Business associates: to companies that perform services for us and have agreed in writing to protect your PHI.
Uses that require your written authorization
We will get your written authorization before using or disclosing your PHI for marketing, before selling your PHI, and for any other use not described in this notice. You may revoke an authorization at any time in writing, except to the extent we have already acted on it.
Your rights
We will get your written authorization before using or disclosing your PHI for marketing, before selling your PHI, and for any other use not described in this notice. You may revoke an authorization at any time in writing, except to the extent we have already acted on it.
Your rights
- Access: you may ask to see or get a copy of your records. We will respond within the time required by law.
- Amendment: you may ask us to correct information you believe is wrong or incomplete.
- Accounting of disclosures: you may ask for a list of certain disclosures we have made of your PHI.
- Restrictions: you may ask us to limit how we use or share your PHI. We may not be able to agree to every request, but we must agree if you pay for a service in full yourself and ask us not to share it with your health plan.
- Confidential communications: you may ask us to contact you in a certain way or at a certain location.
- Paper copy: you may ask for a paper copy of this notice at any time, even if you agreed to receive it electronically.
- Breach notice: you have the right to be told if there is a breach of your unsecured PHI.
To use any of these rights, email clinic@thewellnessabode.com.
Our responsibilities
We will protect your PHI, tell you if a breach affects it, follow the practices in this notice, and not use or share your information other than as described here unless you give us permission in writing. We may change this notice, and the new terms will apply to all PHI we hold. The current notice is always available on our website and from our office.
We will protect your PHI, tell you if a breach affects it, follow the practices in this notice, and not use or share your information other than as described here unless you give us permission in writing. We may change this notice, and the new terms will apply to all PHI we hold. The current notice is always available on our website and from our office.
Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us at clinic@thewellnessabode.com or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us at clinic@thewellnessabode.com or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.