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Your Rights as a Client of
Western Wyoming Family Planning!!

Every attempt will be made to maintain the strictest confidentiality regarding reproductive health care.

• All family planning records and data recorded in those records are considered privileged and confidential information.
• The written consent of a family planning client is required for the release of medical information to any individual including but not limited to parents, spouse, or significant other.
• The use of disclosure of information obtained from program clients is limited to:
  1. Communicable disease case reporting as required by
     WU statute, 35-4-130   through 35-4-134.
  2. The Wyoming Reproductive Health Council Executive Director and/or Nurse Consultant.
  3. Disclosure information involving child abuse/neglect investigations by Department of Social Services.
• A photocopy of document from a family planning record may be released without the written consent of the client only upon receipt of a court order signed by the judge requiring disclosure of the records described in the court order.
• Unless otherwise specified, a written release from the client is required before the family planning program may release information.
• The confidentiality requirements set forth above apply both to information provided by the client and to information which is based on direct observation of a client’s behavior or condition.
• The release of information with other state or federal agencies for income verification is permissible and clients should be informed at the time of the initial visit that information maybe shared with other state or federal agencies in order to comply with regulatory provisions, i.e. audits.
• Release of family planning information in child custody cases and other instance which the request comes from an individual other than the client will be dependent upon State Law usually arising during a court proceeding.
• Such determinations must be made on a case by case basis.  Consult with legal counsel in response to these requests.
• Under no circumstances are names of family planning clients to be shared with vendors or other unauthorized personnel.
• In the case of a mentally incompetent client, a responsible person acting on his or her behalf must sign a release of information form.   “Responsible” persons are usually established by the court by assigning a legal guardian.

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