Duties of Hopkins County Health Department
Ways we use your medical and health information:
- To treat you: We may share your information with professionals who are treating you.
- To receive payment for services: We can use and share your health information to bill and get payment from health plans or other entities.
- To operate our health department: We may share your information to improve care and to contact you.
- To comply with law: We may share information about you, required by law, to ensure compliance and in prevention efforts. These are usually in ways to contribute to the public good, such as public health and research. We must meet many conditions in the law before we can share your information for these purposes. For more information click here.
- Work in partnership with a medical examiner or funeral director. We can share health information with a coroner, medical examiner, or funeral director when individual dies.
- Address worker’s compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests. We can use or share health information about you: For workers’ compensation claims, for law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official, with health oversight agencies for activities authorized by law, for special government functions such as military, national security, and presidential protective services.
- Respond to lawsuits and legal actions. We can share health information about you in a response to a court or administrative order, or in response to a subpoena.
- We may contact you regarding appointments, treatments, and service options.
Our Responsibilities
- We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of you protected health information.
- We will notify you promptly in case of a breach of your medical and/or health information.
- We will follow the duties and practices detailed in this notice.
- We will not share your information other than as described in this notice unless you provide written permission to share your information in other ways. You may withdraw permission, in writing, at any time.
The terms of this Notice of Privacy practices may be changed at any time to comply with law. When changes are made, the new notice will be available upon request at Hopkins County Health Department clinical locations.
Hopkins County Health Department is committed to protecting any personal information that our site “visitors” give to us. By user “personal information” we mean any and all information that could identify someone in a personal way and not otherwise publicly available. This Privacy Policy applies to the Hopkins County Health Department website. We may collect personal identification information from site visitors in several ways including when visitors go to our website or fill out a contact form. Site visitors can browse our website anonymously. We only collect information containing personal identification from website visitors when they voluntarily provide such information to us. Visitors can always choose against providing personal information on our website.
We will not share, sell, distribute or lease the personal information of our site “visitors” with any third party services that are unaffiliated. We do not sell any personal information of our clients.
When you provide your contact information to Hopkins County Health Department including your name, phone number and email information or any personal details, we use this to help best respond to your inquiry.
We restrict access to any of the personal information that you provide to us to employees who specifically need that information to give you the information that you requested or to respond to your order processing. We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is secure.
In order to safeguard against unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable electronic, physical and managerial procedures to best safeguard and secure the information we collect from you online.
Hopkins County Health Department retains the right to update this Privacy Policy whenever needed. Site visitors should check this page for updates on how we are working to protect any personal information we receive from this site. Site visitors acknowledge and agree that it is their own responsibility to review this Privacy Policy when visiting the site to stay up-to-date on any changes.
By using our website, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the Hopkins County Health Department website policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to this policy is signified as your acceptance of any changes.
If you believe that any information we have for you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us via email or phone and we will make the requested corrections. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, the practices of our website, or your experience on our website, please contact us with the information below.
Hopkins County Health Department
412 North Kentucky Avenue
Madisonville, Kentucky 42431
Last updated March 26, 2026.