Your Rights as a Hospital Patient in New York State
This section presents each document that the law requires you receive as an inpatient in a hospital in New York State
Patients' Rights
- Patients' Bill of Rights
- An Important Message Regarding Your Rights as a Hospital Inpatient (for patients not covered by Medicare)
- Admission Notice for Medicare Patients
- Important Message from Medicare
Advance Directives -- Self Determination
- Planning in Advance For Your Medical Treatment (A summary of a facility's policy regarding advance directives)
- Deciding about Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders -- A Guide for Patients and Families
- Appointing Your Health Care Agent -- New York State's Proxy Law
- Health Care Proxy - Who Will Speak for You?
Data Collection
Information that must be provided upon prebooking if you are a maternity patient:
Information that must be provided before you leave the hospital:
- All patients must receive a written discharge plan.
- Medicare patients receive a copy of the "Important Message Fom Medicare" and may ask for a discharge notice called a Hospital Issued Notice of Noncoverage (HINN), also called a Continued Stay Denial Notice, if they disagree with discharge.
- All other patients must receive a hospital discharge notice.
If you have trouble understanding anything or have any questions about these materials, ask the hospital staff for an explanation. It is your right!