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POLICY
OF RECORDS RETENTION
It is the policy of the Kearney Clinic to maintain your
chart until SEVEN (7) YEARS AFTER the last time you were
seen as a patient at the Kearney Clinic. After that time,
your chart will be destroyed. Effective since 2005, ONLY
immunization records will be kept indefinitely.
POLICY OF DECEASED
RECORDS
It is the policy of the Kearney Clinic to maintain charts
of deceased patients for SEVEN (7) YEARS after the last
time they were seen as a patient at the Kearney Clinic.
After that time, the records will be destroyed. Immunization
records of deceased patients are not kept.
Therefore, if you desire your medical record chart or
the medical record chart of a deceased family member,
please notify the Kearney Clinic Medical Records Department
before the expiration of the 7-year period. We will not
retain or be responsible for medical records after the
expiration of the 7-year retention period as described
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