Patient Rights & Responsibilities

As a patient at Greenwich Hospital, you have options for your care and treatment. Your doctors and other health care professionals will offer information and advice concerning appropriate, comprehensive medical care. At the same time, we realize that any stresses of worry, concern and discomfort may make understanding information and coming to decisions more difficult. As your caregivers, we will do our best to ensure a process that will enable you to make the decisions best for you, including the decision to discontinue treatment, to the extent permitted by law.

It is Greenwich Hospital's obligation and privilege to inform you of and explain (in a language you can understand), your rights and responsibilities as a patient, and assist you in exercising these rights.

Among the hospital's resources for assurance of considerate, respectful care is the Greenwich Hospital Ethics Committee, comprised of representatives from many professions and the community. The Ethics Committee aims to be a source of education, policy review and consultation for the hospital, physicians, patients and community on issues of medical ethics and dilemmas. You can contact the committee by speaking to your doctor or nurse, or the following departments: