CARS Responsibilities
CARS Notice of Privacy Practices
This notice describes how protected health information (PHI) about you may be used and disclosed and how you can gain access to this information. Please review it carefully.
We are required by applicable federal and state law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information.
Protected Health Information (PHI) is information about you, including demographic information, that may identify you and that relates to your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. We are also required to give you this notice about our privacy practices, our legal duties, and your rights concerning your PHI. We must follow the privacy practices that are described in this notice while it is in effect. This notice is effective April 14, 2003, and will remain in effect until we replace it.
We reserve the right to change our privacy practice and the terms of this notice at any time, provided such changes are permitted by applicable law. We reserve the right to make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our notice effective for all PHI that we maintain, including PHI we created or received before we made the changes. Before we make a significant change in our privacy practices, we will change this notice and make the new notice available upon request.
For more information about the privacy practices, questions or concerns, please contact:
CARS Director
1800 Mesa Vista Road NE
MSC 02 1770
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
