Nondiscrimination Policy

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Overlake Medical Center & Clinics (“Overlake”) complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, language, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, religion, creed, military or veteran status, marital status, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, and local law. Please read Overlake’s Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Policy for additional information.

As part of the accessibility efforts of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and its implementing regulations, and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Overlake provides reasonable accommodations, including free aids and services to patients and their companions with disabilities to participate and communicate effectively, Overlake:

• Provides appropriate auxiliary aids to persons with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, where necessary to afford such persons an equal opportunity to benefit from the service in question.
• Permits the use of service animals in accordance with the law.
• Makes its facilities accessible to those with mobility impairments in accordance with the law; and
  • Provides free language assistance services to patients and their companions with limited English proficiency.
  • Qualified sign language interpreters.
  • Qualified spoken language interpreters.
  • Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats).
  • Written information translated into other languages.

Overlake will consider all reasonable modification requests for access to programs, activities, services or benefits. To request a reasonable modification please complete the reasonable modification request form (PDF) and submit it to overlakeadmitting@overlakehospital.org.