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Office For Civil Rights

Mission statement:

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), promotes and ensures that people have equal access to and opportunity to participate in and receive services from all HHS programs without facing unlawful discrimination, and that the privacy of their health information is protected while ensuring access to care. Through prevention and elimination of unlawful discrimination and by protecting the privacy of individually identifiable health information, OCR helps HHS carry out its overall mission of improving the health and well-being of all people affected by its many programs.

Contact Information:

Office For Civil Rights
Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington DC 20201

Internet address: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/index.html

Phone number(s):

(800) 368-1019
(800) 537-7697 TDD
(866) 627-7748 HIPAA

Related topics:

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• DISABILITIES
• DISCRIMINATION
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• LEGAL ISSUES
• MINORITIES
• SPANISH LANGUAGE MATERIALS

NWHIC record number O-4569