Lawrence & Memorial Hospital may collect certain personal information from employees, patients, medical staff members and other clients in the course of doing business, which may include individual Social Security numbers.
It is the policy of Lawrence & Memorial Hospital to protect the confidentiality of individual Social Security numbers obtained and used in the regular course of business. We protect the confidentiality of Social Security numbers in the following ways:
- By maintaining reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to keep Social Security numbers confidential;
- By limiting access to the Social Security numbers we collect to those individuals who have a need for the information to conduct the Hospital’s business;
- By prohibiting the unlawful disclosure of Social Security numbers that we collect; and
- By maintaining the privacy and security of employee and patient information in accordance with applicable state and federal law.