Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Section 1557 Our Health Equity Promise

Our Health Equity Promise applies to AdventHealth’s practices and that of:

  • Any health care professional authorized to enter information into your medical record maintained by an AdventHealth facility, such as doctors, nurses, physician assistants, technologists and others.
  • All departments and units of AdventHealth facilities, including hospitals, outpatient facilities, physician practices, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices, urgent care centers, and emergency departments.
  • All employees, staff, students, volunteers and other personnel of AdventHealth facilities.

AdventHealth complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. AdventHealth does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

AdventHealth provides free aids and services to people with disabilities to communicate effectively with us, such as:

  • Qualified sign language interpreters
  • Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)

AdventHealth provides free language services to people whose primary language is not English, such as:

  • Qualified interpreters
  • Information written in other languages

If you need these services, please call 800-906-1794 / TTY: 407-200-1388.

If you believe AdventHealth has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance or request that someone assist you with filing a grievance by calling 800-906-1794 / TTY: 407-200-1388 or emailing us at patientrequest@adventhealth.com.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically, through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building Washington, D.C. 20201

1-800-368-1019, 800-537-7697 (TDD)

Complaint forms are available at hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.