Civil Rights Policy

Hunterdon Center for Surgery:

• Provides free aids and services to people with disabilities to communicate effectively with us, such as:
• Qualified sign language interpreters
• Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)
• Provides free language services to people whose primary language is not English, such as:
• Qualified interpreters
• Information written in other languages

If you need these services, contact Lisa York, Civil Rights Coordinator.

If you believe that Hunterdon Center for Surgery has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance with: Lisa York, Executive Director, Civil Rights Coordinator, 9100 Wescott Drive, Flemington, NJ 08822, (908)-806-7017(phone), (908)-806-2838 (fax), lyork@hhsnj.org, (email). You can file a grievance in person or by mail, fax, or email. If you need help filing a grievance, Lisa York, Executive Director is available to help you.

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 20201
1-800-368-1019, 800-537-7697 (TDD)

Complaint forms are available at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/file/index.html.

Information for individuals with limited English proficiency – please click here.