Volunteer Program

Confidentiality Statement

This document is intended for employees, volunteers, students, visitors and business associates. The words patient and client should be viewed as interchangeable. Patient confidentiality is the preservation, in confidence, of all information concerning a client or patient which may be disclosed in a treatment relationship between the patient and medical, dental, pharmacy, social health, mental health, general health care professionals, or other employees of the clinic. All treatment records and other personal information concerning individual patients are confidential. Under Oregon law, Waterfall CHC may be legally liable for your actions that are within the course and scope of your duties as a volunteer. However, improper disclosure of confidential information could be considered not to be within the course and scope of your duties. As a result, Waterfall CHC could refuse to defend you in any legal action that might be brought by a client for violating the patient or client’s confidentiality. Under Waterfall CHC policy, breaches of confidentiality can result in immediate dismissal. Being informed of the preceding, as a volunteer, you agree that you will at all times keep confidential and will not disclose or furnish to anyone, other than to other employees or agents of Waterfall CHC (but only as appropriate and necessary): 1) the names or addresses of any of Waterfall CHC’s patient’s; 2) the diagnosis, treatment, and results thereof of any medical care furnished to any Waterfall CHC patients, except as authorized in writing by the patient or as may otherwise be prescribed by law. In addition, as a volunteer, you will at all times keep confidential and will not disclose any information received during the course of your volunteerism (or during your association with Waterfall CHC with regard to the personnel, financial or other proprietary information of Waterfall CHC, its employees, or its patients, except to entities with a bona fide “need to know” for service delivery, government licensing authorities, or, if required by the terms of a contract or grant, to representatives of the contracting agency or grantor. As a volunteer, you also agree that the two preceding paragraphs shall be a continuing agreement and shall survive any termination or expiration of the relationship between you, as a volunteer, and Waterfall CHC.