SFFC has written privacy practices that are available for your review. Our privacy practices describe how we may use or disclose a patient's protected health information, with whom that information may be shared, and the safeguards we have in place to protect it. The policy describes patients' right to access and amend their protected health information.

The San Francisco Free Clinic is part of an organized healthcare arrangement that includes participants in OCHIN. A current list of OCHIN participants is available at www.ochin.org. As a business associate of The San Francisco Free Clinic, OCHIN supplies information technology and related services to The San Francisco Free Clinic and other OCHIN participants. OCHIN also engages in quality assessment and improvement activities on behalf of its participants. For example, OCHIN coordinates clinical review activities for participating organizations to establish best practice standards and access clinical benefits derived from electronic health record systems. OCHIN also helps participants work collaboratively to improve the management of internal and external patient referrals. The San Francisco Free Clinic may share your health information with other OCHIN participants when necessary for health care operation purposes of the organized health care arrangement.  

You can download a full copy of our privacy practices here.