Records Request and Confidentiality
As a member of the PASSHE system, Kutztown University follows FERPA guidelines to protect the confidentiality of all student health records.
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Below is the FERPA compliant records request for your convenience:
Authorizations are required for release of information to:
- Parents (unless
student is a minor). - Physicians and nurse practitioners not on the KU staff who are not at that moment treating the client.
- Attorneys (by subpoena only).
- Insurance companies.
- Schools.
- Law enforcement agencies; without client consent, a court order or a search warrant is needed.
- Immigration and naturalization service.
- Employers.
- Welfare agencies.
- Social Security Administration.
- Veterans Administration.
- Internal Revenue Service.
- Civil Service departments.
- Courts without a Subpoena Duces Tecum.
Designee ofstudent (18 yrs of age or older).
Authorizations are NOT REQUIRED for release of information to:
- Another health care facility via telephone when the information is needed for DIRECT EMERGENCY CARE of the client.
- Another physician or health care facility that is at that moment treating the client.
- State and local health departments and/or other agencies.