The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the 1996 Federal law that restricts access to individuals’ private medical information. HIPAA requires organizations to provide patients with a notice explaining their rights and how the provider may use their health information. The notice informs patients of their rights to: inspect the medical record; request changes to the record; view of list of disclosures of their record; and request confidential communications. These notices are given to every patient throughout the hospital and are available for review in waiting areas.

If you need immediate assistance, please call our main hospital line at (940) 549-3400.

Printable copy of the Notice of Privacy Practices

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Security

Please note that electronic communication, particularly email, is not necessarily secure against interception. Please do not send sensitive data (e.g., Social Security, bank account, or credit card numbers) by email or web form.

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We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.