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Your Slim Solution
Weight Loss & Wellness
2011 S. McCall Road
Englewood, FL 34223
Your Slim Solution is a medically supervised weight loss clinic. Massage, Skin Care Services and Body Wraps are now available. Our Medical Director is P. Fernando Casanova, MD. Dr. Casanova is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American Society of Bariatric Medicine.
Director of Clinical Services is Laurie Dignam, RN
Director, Carol Katsarelas, Cosmetologist
Director, Joni Hyde, RRT
STAFF:
Melissa Corona, A.S. CMA; Jamie Nethery, LPN; Helen Evans, RN; Ellen Briggs, Massage Therapist & Anna Mae Ballard, Massage Therapist
Call (941)474-7877 for Questions or Consultation.
info@YourSlimSolution.com
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Articles of Interest and Medical Forms
Notice of Privacy Practices for Protected Health Information (HIPPA) We at Your Slim Solution are committed to the protection of your medical health information. The law requires us to maintain the privacy of your protected health information and to provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy policies with respect to protected health information. We are required by law to abide by the terms of this notice, however, we reserve the right to change the terms of this notice, making any revisions we believe applicable to our policies related to protection of health information we maintain. In the event that Your Slim Solution revises the terms of this notice, the amended notice will be posted within the office, including at our registration site, and on our web site. Copies of the amended Notice Of Privacy Practices for Protected Health Information will be available upon request.
Entities covered by this notice: Your Slim Solution, currently includes one office located in Englewood, FL and one physician that is medical director of this facility. All members of Your Slim Solution, LLC and employees of, are held to the terms of this notice.
How Your Slim Solution will use and disclose your medical information: We understand that information we obtain about you and your health is personal. However, we will need to use and disclose information about you and your health in order to service you and meet your health needs. The following explains ways we will use and disclose your health related information. Not every specific use or disclosure can be listed. However, all the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall into these types of situations and categories.
Your health information may also be used and/or disclosed by Your Slim Solution: to provide appointment reminders or changes. To inform you of other health related benefits and services that may interest you. To follow up your visit by sending to your listed address a survey about your satisfaction with our service to you. Your health information may also be used and/or disclosed by Your Slim Solution in accordance with federal, state and local laws for the following purposes:
To provide information when required by the United States Department of Health and Human Services as part of an investigation or determination of the facilities compliance with relevant laws. To a public or private entity for the purpose of coordinating with that entity to assist in disaster relief efforts. To public health agencies to report disease, injury, vital events and to conduct public health surveillance, investigation and or intervention. To a health oversight agency for oversight activities authorized by law, including audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and or accreditation or disciplinary actions, administrative and or legal proceedings. To prevent or lessen a serious threat to the health or safety of another person or the public as authorized by laws relating to workers' compensation or similar programs. To a coroner, medical examiner or a funeral director. To an organ donation and procurement organization if you are an organ donor. To use for certain research purposes. To use in the course of certain judicial or administrative proceedings. To law enforcement agencies or other specialized governmental functions. To worker's compensation or similar programs. To the correctional institution or law enforcement official who provides you with healthcare, to protect your or others health and safety, or for the safety and security of the correctional institution if you are an inmate of a correctional institution.
Unless you object, Your Slim Solution may disclose to family members, other relatives or close personal friends the medical information directly relevant to such person's involvment with your care. May use or disclose your medical information to notify a family member, a personal representative or another person responsible for your care of your location, general condition or death. You may receive unsolicited materials promoting programs or services of Your Slim Solution because your name appears on publicly available lists, or because you have subscribed to a membership program with us.
Your rights regarding your medical information: With respect to your medical information, you have the right to: request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your medical information. Your Slim Solution is not required to agree to your request. Receive communication from Your Slim Solution in a confidential manner. Inspect and request a copy of your medical information. This right is subject to certain specific exceptions, and you may be charged a reasonable fee to have copies of your medical record made. Request a change or amendment of your medical information. Your Slim Solution may deny your request for certain specific reasons and if denied, Your Slim Solution will provide you with a written explanation for the denial. Receive an accounting of the disclosures of your medical information made by Your Slim Solution in year prior to your request starting the effective date of this notice, except for disclosures for treatment, payment or office operational purposes, and for certain other disclosure types. Request that we communicate with you in a specific manner or at a certain location such as work or only by mail. Receive a paper copy of this notice from Your Slim Solution or one of its entities upon written request. You may register a complaint with Your Slim Solution and or to the United States Department of Health and Human Services if you believe that Your Slim Solution has violated your privacy rights. To register a complaint to Your Slim Solution, please contact the privacy officer at (941)474-7877.
You may file a written complaint with the county health department or the US Department of Health & Human Services. There will be no retaliation in any form should you chose to register a complaint.
This notice is effective as of April 14, 2003
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