Sleep Dreams

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Who we are

We are a Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Medicine Practice. As such, while our webinars and seminars are available to all people, our one-on-one sleep intensives require that the patient be in the state of Alabama to comply with the medical board as Dr. Maddox currently holds an Alabama license.

Please note: Webinars and Seminars are NOT covered under HIPAA. However, we collect name, email, and payments through a system called KEAP that is HIPAA compliant. Questions regarding webinars can be submitted at the end of each webinar. Once we have several questions, we will provide a free video update answering all of the questions. We cannot engage directly if you are not a current patient as the medical boards will not allow for one-on-one care with individuals who are not patients. We also cannot guarantee privacy at seminars as seminars include multiple people. ALL one-on-one patient care IS covered per our policies below.

Our HIPAA and Privacy Policies

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Sleep Dreams© (the “Practice”) is committed to protecting your privacy. The Practice is required by federal law to maintain the privacy of Protected Health Information (“PHI”), which is information that identifies or could be used to identify you. The Practice is required to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices (this “Notice”), which explains the Practice’s legal duties and privacy practices and your rights regarding PHI that we collect and maintain.
Policy: NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES POLICY for Sleep Dreams, LLC

Effective Date: 8/17/2024

Review Dates (noting revisions, if applicable): n/a

  1. Purpose: 

To facilitate compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Standards), 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164. To provide patients with a written description of Sleep Dreams, LLC’s (“Sleep Dreams”) uses and disclosures of protected health information, the patient’s rights, and Sleep Dreams’ legal duties with respect to such protected health information.

  1. Scope:  

All Sleep Dreams facilities including, but not limited to, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging and oncology centers, physician practices, and corporate departments.

  1. Definition of Terms:

Acknowledgment – written (whether paper or electronic) documentation that the patient has received the Notice.

Notice of Privacy Practices – a plain language notice of the uses and disclosures that Sleep Dreams makes of the patient’s protected health information, the patient’s rights and our legal duties with respect to such protected health information.

Patient – the individual whose information is protected or the individual who has been granted rights over such information under HIPAA or state law. The term includes personal representatives entitled to make health care decisions on behalf of the patient.

Protected health information – information that relates to the past, present or future physical or mental health, health care or condition of an individual or payment for health care, including identifying demographic information, which identifies and individual, regardless of whether the information is gathered, stored or transmitted in written, electronic, video or even oral form.

  1. Policy: 

Sleep Dreams will use and disclose protected health information only in conformance with the contents of its Notice of Privacy Practice.

  1. Procedure:
  1. Notice
  1. Sleep Dreams will adopt and follow a written Notice of Privacy Practices meeting the requirements of the Privacy Rule. The description of information practices, Sleep Dreams’ responsibilities and patient rights contained in the Notice will govern Sleep Dreams’ conduct until the Notice is properly revised and the revised Notice is properly posted and made available to the patient upon request. The notice will be made in the following languages: English (Spanish?).
  1. Sleep Dreams will post the Notice in a clear and prominent location at service sites where it is reasonable to expect individuals seeking services to be able to read the Notice. The Privacy Officer will approve all posting locations.
  1. If Sleep Dreams maintains a website that provides information about its customer services or benefits, it will prominently post its Notice on the website and make the Notice available electronically through the website (need to post).
  1. Sleep Dreams may e-mail the Notice of Privacy Practices to an individual who has requested electronic notification.
  1. Acknowledgment
  1. Sleep Dreams will make a good faith effort to obtain a patient’s written acknowledgment of receipt of the Notice of Privacy Practices in writing.
  1. At the time of registration or the first time that a patient is seen, Sleep Dreams will obtain the patient’s signed written acknowledgment of receipt of the Notice.
  1. In emergency situations, the Notice will be provided to the patient as soon as reasonable practicable after the emergency has ended.
  1. Documentation 
  1. Signed acknowledgments of receipt of Notice of Privacy Practices will be filed in the patient’s medical record.
  1. If the patient refuses to sign the Notice of Privacy Practices, the Sleep Dreams representative will document on the acknowledgment form efforts made to obtain the patient’s signature, why the acknowledgment was not obtained, and the name of the Sleep Dreams representative who attempted to obtain it. This form will be filed in the patient’s medical record.
  1. Each e-mail distribution of Sleep Dreams’ Notice of Privacy Practices will result in an electronic confirmation of delivery. The confirmation evidencing successful delivery will serve as patient acknowledgment and therefore, will be filed in the patient’s medical record.
  1. Right to Change Notice

Sleep Dreams must promptly revise its Notice whenever there is a material change to Sleep Dreams’ practices with respect to uses or disclosures of protected health information, the patient’s rights, or Sleep Dreams’ legal duties with respect to such information. Unless required by law, a material change to any term in the Notice may not be implemented prior to the effective date of the new Notice.

  1. Whenever the Notice of Privacy Practices is revised, Sleep Dreams will make the Notice available upon request on or after the effective date of the revision. In addition, the new Notice must be posted in a clear and prominent location with Sleep Dreams service sites and posted on Sleep Dreams’ website.

Changes to Sleep Dreams’ Notice of Privacy Practices will apply to all protected health Information Sleep Dreams maintains, including protected health information created or received before Sleep Dreams changed its privacy practices and the Notice. 


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