Health Care Partners of South Carolina is committed to protecting information about you and your health. We create a record of the care and services you receive from us. We need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice applies to all of our records.

We are legally required to protect the privacy of your health information. We call this information "protected health information" or "PHI" for short. PHI includes information that can be used to identify you that we have created or received about your past, present, or future health or condition and related health care services. We must provide you with this notice about our privacy practices that explains how, when, and why we use and disclose your PHI. With some exceptions, we may not use or disclose any more of your PHI than is necessary to accomplish the purpose of the use or disclosure. We are legally required to abide by the privacy practices that are described in this notice.

In addition to the health information that you may give us, we may collect health information about you from other sources, such as your family, your legal representative, insurance companies, other health care providers, and employers. The following are examples of the health information about you that we may collect or create:

• Registration information such as your name, address, birth date, social security number, medical and mental health history, payment sources, physicians' names, and how to contact your family and others involved in your care.
   
• Medical information such as test results and the health records shared by your doctors, nurses, therapists, mental health professionals, and other caregivers.

Please view our HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.