Deceased Patients

Category: Medical Record Release of Information

Date: March 2003

Reviewed/Revised: April 2013

Policy

When a patient is deceased, medical records can be released to the following individuals in the priority of their listing where the health care provider is not aware of a higher class:

1. executor or personal representative of the deceased;
2. spouse;
3. adult son or daughter;
4. either parent;
5. adult brother or sister; any other relative in descending order of relationship.