Category: Medical Record Release of Information

Date: March 2003

Reviewed/Revised: April 2013

Policy

When a patient is deceased, medical records can be released to the following individuals in the priority of their listing where the health care provider is not aware of a higher class:

  1. executor or personal representative of the deceased;
  2. spouse;
  3. adult son or daughter;
  4. either parent;
  5. adult brother or sister; any other relative in descending order of relationship.
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