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Who is Piedmont Columbus Regional Healthcare?

Founded in 1836, Piedmont Columbus Regional is a leading healthcare provider in west Georgia serving the Columbus, Ga. area with a network of health and medical services through its two hospital campuses. Piedmont Columbus Regional joined the Piedmont system on March 1, 2018.

What is the new Piedmont Health Portal?

This Piedmont Health Portal is now available to all Piedmont Health patients. The SECURE website lets you: • And more! In the next few months, we will be providing additional features to make communications and information easier to help you manage your health with your Care Team.

What can I do as a Piedmont health patient?

As a Piedmont Health patient, you can have access to your own medical history. This Piedmont Health Portal is now available to all Piedmont Health patients. The SECURE website lets you:

Does Piedmont Columbus Regional have a civil rights policy?

*Piedmont Columbus Regional complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

What is the Piedmont Columbus Regional?

Piedmont Columbus Regional's policy is to respect the individuality and dignity of all patients and to honor, in accordance with law, an adult patient’s right to make informed decisions regarding treatment to include participation in end of life decisions. This includes an adult patient’s right to consent to, refuse, or alter treatment plans and the right to formulate advance directives which will govern, if you become incapacitated.

What is an advance directive in Piedmont Columbus?

Advance directives are documents written in advance of serious illness which state patient choices about medical treatment or name someone to make those choices for patients if they are unable to do so. The Patient Self Determination Act (effective Dec. 1, 1991) mandates that all health care institutions provide adult patients with written information about their rights to make decisions concerning their medical care. Piedmont Columbus Regional’s Patient Bill of Rights, Patient Responsibilities and Georgia Advance Directive Healthcare form are included in the Patient Care Information that is given to patients on admission for their convenience and information. This in no way indicates that Piedmont Columbus Regional requires or requests a patient to execute an Advance Directive. The execution and possession of an Advance Directive is a completely personal choice. The decision is the patient's.

What are the rights of patients?

Patients have the right to freedom from abuse, neglect, exploitation or harassment. Patients have the right to care in a safe setting.

What is the right of a patient to give or withhold consent to the hospital?

Patients have the right to give or withhold informed consent to the hospital for the production or use of recordings, films, or other images of the patient for purposes other than one's care.

What is the responsibility of a patient?

Patients have the responsibility to provide, to the best of their knowledge, accurate and complete information about one's present complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medications, and other matters relating to one's health.

When do patients have the responsibility to ask questions?

Patients have the responsibility to ask questions when they do not understand what they have been told about their health care and what they are expected to do.

Who is responsible for meeting hospital financial obligations?

Patients have the responsibility for promptly meeting one's financial obligation and commitments agreed to with the hospital. The patient, family and visitors are responsible for following the hospital’s rules and regulations.

Where is Piedmont Columbus located?

Founded in 1836, Piedmont Columbus Regional is a leading healthcare provider in west Georgia serving the Columbus, Ga. area with a network of health and medical services through its two hospital campuses.

What is a PICU?

Children’s Hospital, which includes a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) The Family Medicine Residency Program at Midtown was first in Georgia in 1972 and is one of the first in the southeastern United States. The mission of Piedmont Columbus Regional is to promote the health and healing of our patients.