How to Obtain Your Greenville Memorial Hospital Medical Records

Keeping a copy of your medical records is a smart thing to do. You never know when you'll need a copy for your own treatment or to handle your medical bills. And by keeping an eye on your medical records as you do (or should do) your credit report, you can catch and fix any errors that might be contained in them.

The first step, though, is to gather all your medical records from each provider you've seen. If you've been treated at Greenville Memorial Hospital within the past seven years, make sure to request a copy of your medical records today.

Why Keeping Copies of Your Medical Records Is Critical

Whether you live alone or with a partner, it's essential to keep the copies of your medical records somewhere safe. You can keep hard copies or electronic records, but preferably both. No matter which you choose, they should be:

1. Complete
2. Accurate
3. Error-free

Nobody wants to think about it, but you could suffer a sudden injury or become sick at any time. And our past medical history will be considered when a provider is recommending current treatment or when a loved one is considering treatment options if you have become incapacitated.

It is crucial that your provider (loved ones or caregiver) have complete and accurate information about your health to make the best decisions and recommendations. When they don't, a provider may recommend treatment that makes your condition worse or waste crucial time trying to treat your injury or sickness ineffectively.

For example, if you've bled heavily from an accident, chances are you'll be given a blood transfusion. But if you are on blood thinners, you'll need to take a reversal agent that will remove the blood thinners again and allow your blood to clot, so you'll stop bleeding. However, if nobody knows you're on blood thinners, you could lose a lot, potentially a fatal amount of blood, because of your injury.

If you have your medical records somewhere easy to access so that you or your loved one can give a healthcare provider a complete picture at intake, your chances of a positive health outcome increase exponentially.

Why Relying on Hospital/Healthcare Provider Portals Is Not a Good Idea

Today, with so many people relying on apps and member portals, it's easy to think that you can just log in to your primary care physician's patient portal and access your record in an emergency. But in an emergency, you may be incapacitated, and your loved one may not have access to your log-in information. Or it may be incomplete, especially if you move or travel frequently and have received care in other cities, states, and countries.

It's also possible that you'll forget your log-in information and have to struggle to retrieve it in the ER, wasting valuable time that could be used to diagnose and treat you. And every online system suffers outages from time to time. Can you really afford to wait for the IT to get a portal back up and running when you need emergency care, pain relief, or diagnosis of a potentially serious medical condition?

Further, patient portals sometimes lull us into a false sense of security. When all of your records appear rapidly on your smartphone screen, you may scrutinize them a little bit less. You may even start to overlook email notifications that a new patient record has been uploaded. And because nobody is infallible, you could have one or more records with errors in your patient portal account and not even know it.

But when you intentionally review each record, you're likely to find any errors that may be there. Even establishing the habit of printing off a copy of each one, as well as downloading each to a cloud folder or hard drive, may make you more inclined to check them for accuracy.

How to Obtain Your Greenville Memorial Hospital Records

If you're looking to obtain your Greenville Memorial Hospital records, you'll need to complete an online request form through the patient portal. Or you'll need to download an authorization request form, complete it, print it, and mail it to the hospital with a copy of your photo ID. Sounds simple, right?

But it may not be. A recent study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Yale University found that many hospitals don't comply with the federal guidelines for providing them to former patients. The study also found, in some cases, hospitals and providers:

• Take an extraordinarily long time to provide them.
• May charge hundreds of dollars for copies of your own information.
• Refuse to provide the records in their preferred format, electronic or hard copy, even though doing so is the law.
• Don't clearly spell out the costs on their online request forms.

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How to Get Your Greensville Memorial Hospital Medical Records With the Help of DoNotPay

The entire process can be not only costly but also time-consuming and convoluted. And if you're not only looking for your Greenville Memorial Hospital medical records but also other records as well, you're in for a major headache.

That's where DoNotPay comes in, with a simple, streamlined process that can help you gather all of your medical records from wherever you were treated.

All you have to do is:

1. Look up medical records on DoNotPay’s website.

2. Enter the name of the health care provider you’d like to receive medical records from.

3. Answer a few questions about your provider and where you’d like to send the records.

Complete this process to get not just your Greenville Memorial Hospital medical records but all the medical records you need.

Medical Records Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Whether you need help compiling your medical records from several different providers or want to know about your rights regarding your health information, we can help. DoNotPay has helped people like you get medical records from providers like:

• Kaiser
• Mercy Health
• Baptist Medical
• Cleveland Clinic

We can also help you handle other complicated online tasks like:

• Requesting a sick leave
• Obtaining your birth certificate
• Filing a complaint

First things first though. Use DoNotPay to get your Greenville Memorial Hospital medical records and records from other providers and make sure they are complete, accurate, and error-free. DoNotPay makes it easy for you to make sure you have all of your health information at your fingertips.