Website Terms and Conditions of Use

1. Terms

By accessing this website, you are agreeing to be bound by these website Terms and Conditions of Use, applicable laws and regulations and their compliance. If you disagree with any of the stated terms and conditions, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this site are secured by relevant copyright and trade mark law.

2. Use License

  1. Permission is allowed to temporarily download one duplicate of the materials (data or programming) on New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s site for individual and non-business use only. This is the just a permit of license and not an exchange of title, and under this permit you may not:
    1. modify or copy the materials;
    2. use the materials for any commercial use , or for any public presentation (business or non-business);
    3. attempt to decompile or rebuild any product or material contained on New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s site;
    4. remove any copyright or other restrictive documentations from the materials; or
    5. transfer the materials to someone else or even “mirror” the materials on other server.
      This permit might consequently be terminated if you disregard any of these confinements and may be ended by New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health whenever deemed. After permit termination or when your viewing permit is terminated, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your ownership whether in electronic or printed form.

B.  This permit might consequently be terminated if you disregard any of these confinements and may be ended by New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health             whenever deemed. After permit termination or when your viewing permit is terminated, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your ownership whether         in electronic or printed form.

3. Disclaimer

The materials on New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s site are given “as is”. New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health makes no guarantees, communicated or suggested, and thus renounces and nullifies every single other warranties, including without impediment, inferred guarantees or states of merchantability, fitness for a specific reason, or non-encroachment of licensed property or other infringement of rights. Further, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health does not warrant or make any representations concerning the precision, likely results, or unwavering quality of the utilization of the materials on its Internet site or generally identifying with such materials or on any destinations connected to this website.

4. Constraints

In no occasion should New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health or its suppliers subject for any harms (counting, without constraint, harms for loss of information or benefit, or because of business interference,) emerging out of the utilization or powerlessness to utilize the materials on New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s Internet webpage, regardless of the possibility that New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health or a New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health approved agent has been told orally or in written of the likelihood of such harm. Since a few purviews don’t permit constraints on inferred guarantees, or impediments of obligation for weighty or coincidental harms, these confinements may not make a difference to you.

5. Amendments and Errata

The materials showing up on New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s site could incorporate typographical, or photographic mistakes. New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health does not warrant that any of the materials on its site are exact, finished, or current. New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health may roll out improvements to the materials contained on its site whenever without notification. New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health does not, then again, make any dedication to update the materials.

6. Links

New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health has not checked on the majority of the websites or links connected to its website and is not in charge of the substance of any such connected webpage. The incorporation of any connection does not infer support by New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health of the site. Utilization of any such connected site is at the user’s own risk.

7. Site Terms of Use Modifications

New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health may update these terms of utilization for its website whenever without notification. By utilizing this site you are consenting to be bound by the then current form of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

8. Governing Law

Any case identifying with New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health’s site should be administered by the laws of the country of the United States without respect to its contention of law provisions.

General Terms and Conditions applicable to Use of a website.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critical to us. Likewise, we have built up this Policy with the end goal you should see how we gather, utilize, impart and reveal and make utilization of individual data. The following blueprints our privacy policy.

  • Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
  • We will gather and utilization of individual data singularly with the target of satisfying those reasons indicated by us and for other good purposes, unless we get the assent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
  • We will just hold individual data the length of essential for the satisfaction of those reasons.
  • We will gather individual data by legal and reasonable means and, where fitting, with the information or assent of the individual concerned.
  • Personal information ought to be important to the reasons for which it is to be utilized, and, to the degree essential for those reasons, ought to be exact, finished, and updated.
  • We will protect individual data by security shields against misfortune or burglary, and also unapproved access, divulgence, duplicating, use or alteration.
  • We will promptly provide customers with access to our policies and procedures for the administration of individual data.

We are focused on leading our business as per these standards with a specific end goal to guarantee that the privacy of individual data is secure and maintained.

 

Health Information Usage and Disclosure

  1. Client Falling Ill and Requiring Hospitalization:
  • Treatment and Coordination: If a client falls ill and needs hospitalization, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health can use and disclose PHI to coordinate their care. This includes sharing relevant information with the hospital, specialists, and other healthcare providers involved in their treatment.
  • Notification: New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health can inform family members or emergency contacts about the client’s hospitalization if the client provides consent or if it’s in their best interest (e.g., if they are incapacitated).
  1. Potential Threat to Self or Others:
  • Duty to Warn and Protect: If a client poses a serious threat to themselves or others, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health has a duty to warn and protect. New Focus ABH may disclose PHI to prevent harm. For example:
    • If a client expresses suicidal thoughts, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health can share relevant information with emergency responders or family members.
    • If a client threatens violence against someone else, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health can notify law enforcement or the potential victim.
  • Balancing Privacy and Safety: While respecting privacy, New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must prioritize safety and take necessary actions to prevent harm.

 

Patient Rights

    1. Right to Access:
    • Individuals have the right to access their PHI held by New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health.
    • This includes the right to inspect and obtain a copy of their medical records, billing information, and other health-related data.
    • New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must provide access within 30 days of the request.
    1. Right to Amend:
    • If individuals believe their PHI is inaccurate or incomplete, they can request amendments.
    • New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must consider these requests and make necessary corrections if appropriate.
    1. Right to Restrict Disclosure:
    • Individuals can request restrictions on how their PHI is used or disclosed.
    • New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must comply with reasonable requests, except in emergency situations.
    1. Right to Receive an Accounting of Disclosures:
    • Individuals can request a list of disclosures of their PHI made by the covered entity.
    • This accounting includes disclosures for purposes other than treatment, payment, or healthcare operations.
    1. Right to Complain:
    • If individuals believe their privacy rights have been violated, they can file a complaint with the covered entity.
    • New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must have a process for handling complaints.
    • Individuals can also file complaints with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    1. Right to Receive Notices:
    • New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health must provide individuals with a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) explaining their rights.
    • The NPP outlines how PHI is used, disclosed, and protected

     

    New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health Legal Duties

        • The undersigned hereby authorizes New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health and its staff to release or disclose information in the medical, business or clinical record of the patient of the following: 
        • Any private or public entity with which a claim is being filed for a (all or part) of the patient’s charges, including any insurance carrier or compensation carrier or any of the respective agents, representatives, and claims processing personnel. 
        • Any attorney, collection agency or other persons or entities engaged in the collection of responsible party to New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health. 
        • Any other healthcare professional staff providing needed care. 
        • Any person, corporation, public or private agency to the extent necessary for New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health to obtain and/or maintain licensure, federal and/or state reimbursement for the provisions of health care services or clarification. 
        • Any public or private utilization review organization needing information by telephone or writing to certify the medical necessity or appropriateness of treatment services under review. 
        • Any New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health employee or provider requiring information including patient identity and address in order to provide care and/or maintain the medical records. 
        • For any release beyond the scope of this consent, the patient will be asked to sign a Release of Information Form. 
        • The information release may include diagnosis and treatment including, but not limited to mental and physical condition, drug/alcohol and other information requested to determine coverage, medical necessity and other benefits determination. 
        • This authorization may be revoked at any time except to the extent those actions have already been taken. To cancel this authorization, the patient and/or responsible party realizes that they must do so in writing and send it to New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health.

         

        Who to Contact for Further Information

              For more information about privacy policies contact Marielys Carmona, Officed administrator, and HR. 

              Behavioral Health Clinic in Forsyth County, GA | New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health

              New Focus Addiction and Behavioral Health

              925 Sanders Rd,
              Cumming, GA 30041
              Suite B

              Business Hours:

              Monday – Friday
              9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

              Saturday & Sunday
              Closed