Privacy
Our company respects your privacy and here is our commitment to you.
Our Commitment
Staff Relief Healthcare is committed to ensuring the confidentiality and protection of personal information in its possession.
Staff Relief Healthcare’s Privacy commitment is governed by the information handling practices of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial and professional standards.
If you wish to contact us, you can be assured that all enquiries are treated with respect, privacy and confidentiality. Your personal information collected by Staff Relief Healthcare is for the sole purpose of providing you high quality home health care services.
Staff Relief Healthcare Caregivers can expect the same confidentiality and privacy of their personal information as our Clients.
We Are Accountable
At Staff Relief Healthcare, all Caregivers, Coordinators, Schedulers, Administrators, Officers and Directors are:
Accountable and committed to ensuring that your personal information is held in the strictest confidence
Accountable for maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of all information they have access to in their course of their work with us
Trained in acceptable privacy practices.
What We Collect and Why
Staff Relief Healthcare will only ask you about information that we feel is necessary to provide your care and service.
Our Nursing Coordinator will conduct a thorough health assessment in keeping with the standards of provincial professional licensing bodies.
Our staff will endeavor to ensure that all personal information is accurate, complete and up-to- date, so that we can provide you with the highest quality home health care and nursing services.
We do not use cookies, so you can browse our site with confidence. Your email address will never be used for distribution of unwanted promotional material (SPAM) and will never be sold or otherwise distributed.
You Have a Right to Correct Your Personal Information
You may contact Staff Relief Healthcare to request a correction of an error or omission to your personal information. Staff Relief Healthcare will make the correction as soon as possible.
Your Permission
When we commence your care, we will ask you to sign a Service Agreement, giving us your expressed, written consent for all aspects of the service. This may include such things as conducting an assessment, providing home health care and nursing services and asking your permission regarding release of information. Please let us know if there is anyone with whom you do not want your information, in part or in whole to be released to, and we will make note of this.
Your consent is considered valid through to the end of your service.
For those individuals who are unable to provide consent, then consent will be obtained by an authorized authority ( e.g., parent, legal guardian or power of attorney for personal care).
How We Use Your Personal Information
Your personal information is only used for the purpose of providing home health care and nursing services. Information is only shared with those individuals involved in your care, and excludes anyone you request. Finally, your information may be reviewed internally during auditing and quality improvement activities. Where appropriate, these activities are done without reference to specific individuals. This is an important aspect of our Quality Management System and allows us to continually monitor our performance and improve your services. Client names are NEVER shared with any individual or organization for the purposes of commercial activity, such as selling, trading and/or renting your personal information.
During the course of your care, Staff Relief Healthcare will maintain your personal information as accurately as possible for the purpose of providing your care. Please notify us of any relevant changes in your information as soon as possible.
With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
When you start care with Staff Relief Healthcare, and you sign the Service Agreement, we discuss with you who we will likely share your information with –those individuals that we consider the members of your multidisciplinary care team. Information is only shared with individuals involved in your care.
In rare cases, we may be required by law or other lawful authority to release personal information, such as when we receive a court order or subpoena. In such cases, Staff Relief Healthcare will verify the lawful authority prior to release the information, and will endeavour to release only what is necessary for the stated purpose of the request.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
Staff Relief Healthcare will continue to have access to your information after your care has been discontinued. We retain all discontinued client records for 7 years or longer if required by provincial regulation. These records are stored in a manner that ensures ongoing security.
Safeguards
Staff Relief Healthcare considers your health information extremely confidential, and has put many safeguards in place to ensure its security.
Your information is stored electronically, in paper files and in the knowledge of our staff.
All employees are orientated and trained on privacy practices at the time of hire and sign a Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest Agreement and Conditions of Employment Agreement at that time.
The knowledge and information our staff has is considered private and confidential, and is only used for the purpose of providing Care for Staff Relief Healthcare clients. At any time, if a Caregiver receives a request to share information or is asked about any Client of Staff Relief Healthcare, he/she will not provide any information and will forward the request to Staff Relief Healthcare’s Management Team.
Electronic information is protected by computer firewalls, user names and passwords.
Hard copy files are protected by being stored in the Staff Relief Healthcare office, where access is permitted only to staff with the necessary authority. After hours, these files are kept in a locked, secured and alarmed area.
E-mail signatures include a confidentiality statement explaining what to do if an email is received in error. In the case of either a misdirected fax or email, the direction is to contact Staff Relief Healthcare.
Staff Relief Healthcare is not responsible for the privacy practices of organizations with links on our website.
If You Need More Information, or Have a Question or Concern About Staff Relief Healthcare and its Privacy Practices
Anyone may contact Staff Relief Healthcare with any complaint, question, concern or compliment relating to Staff Relief Healthcare’s information handling practices. All inquiries will be investigated thoroughly, and if found to be justified, appropriate corrective measures will be taken, up to and including making revisions to current policy and practices. Any such corrective actions will be included in our response to the individual making the inquiry.
All Staff Relief Healthcare employees are responsible for ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns about your personal information, or if you would like more information about Staff Relief Healthcare’s policies and practices for managing and handling personal information, you are invited to contact the Staff Relief Healthcare office
You are also entitled to contact your provincial Privacy Commissioner’s Office if you feel this is necessary. While we would appreciate the opportunity to do what we can to address your concerns, we would also assist you in contacting your Privacy Commissioner’s Office if you believe this is warranted.
As required, Staff Relief Healthcare will amend this document and its Privacy Policy when changes to privacy legislation or best practices are known.
