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Healthy Steps Wellness Program Consent

To participate in the Healthy Steps Wellness Program, you are asked to complete a Well-Being Assessment, or “WBA,” that will ask you a series of questions about your health related activities and behaviors and you hereby consent to completion of the WBA. In addition, as part of the Healthy Steps Wellness Program, you are asked to schedule an appointment with a Quest Patient Service Center or an appropriate doctor for a Health Screening, and by scheduling this screening you consent to the disclosure of your Health Screening test results to Kindred for the purpose of participating in the 2017 Healthy Steps Wellness Program. Your Health Screening will include screening of height, weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, and a simple fasting blood draw to screen for cholesterol, glucose, and triglycerides. Your results and the WBA will be used as part of the Healthy Steps Wellness Program to calculate awards points under the Program and to help you set individual goals and improve your health status.

Kindred must comply with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) while administering the Health Steps Wellness Program. GINA requires that Kindred describe the confidentiality protections and restrictions on the disclosure of your genetic information. "Genetic information," as defined by GINA, includes an individual's family medical history, the results of an individual's or family member's genetic tests, the fact that an individual or an individual's family member sought or received genetic services, and genetic information of a fetus carried by an individual or an individual's family member or an embryo lawfully held by an individual or family member receiving assistive reproductive services. Complete blood counts, cholesterol tests, and liver-function tests are not considered a “genetic test” under GINA.

Kindred must maintain any of your genetic information in writing on forms and in medical files (including where the information exists in electronic forms and files) separate from personnel files. Kindred must treat this information as a confidential medical record. Kindred may maintain genetic information about you in the same file in which it maintains confidential medical information subject to section 102(d)(3)(B) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12112(d)(3)(B). While genetic information that Kindred receives orally need not be reduced to writing, Kindred may not disclose such information except as expressly permitted by law. Genetic information that Kindred acquires through sources that are commercially and publicly available is not considered confidential genetic information, but may not be used to discriminate against you.

GINA generally prohibits Kindred from disclosing genetic information Kindred possesses about you, regardless of how Kindred obtained the information, except for genetic information acquired through commercially and publically available resources. However, GINA does allow Kindred to disclose information in the following six (6) circumstances:

  1. Kindred may disclose information to you upon receipt of your written request.
  2. Kindred may disclose information to an occupational or other health researcher if the research is conducted in compliance with the regulations and protections provided for human subjects during research under 45 CFR part 46,
  3. Kindred may disclose information in response to a court order, but only the genetic information expressly authorized by such order. If the court order was secured without your knowledge, Kindred shall inform you or your member of the court order and any genetic information that was disclosed pursuant to such order.
  4. Kindred may disclose information to government officials investigating compliance with GINA if the information is relevant to the investigation.
  5. Kindred may disclose information in support of compliance with the certification provisions of section 103 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2613) or such requirements under State family and medical leave laws;
  6. Kindred may disclose information to a Federal, State, or local public health agency only with regard to information about the manifestation of a disease or disorder that concerns a contagious disease that presents an imminent hazard of death or life-threatening illness, provided your family member whom is the subject of the disclosure is notified of such disclosure.