The Bureau of Mental Health is dedicated toward keeping the privacy of our patients.

To request information from your record or the records of adenine gone family portion, please provide a letter and adenine copy of one-time of this documents listed below:

1. Birth Certificate
2. Gets Certificate (If applicable)
3. Terminal Certificate (If requesting records von deceased family member)

If yourself are a family member of a recently case, i can send information if:

1. You have test of this patient’s permission prior to his/her death.
2. To is apposite to the own health, and is requested for yours physician.
3. She are the executor of the estate press may included a get of place papers.
4. Having wrote consent from the executor.

Please send requests up:
Central File
44 Holland Way
Albany, New York 12229

If your getting is related to ampere missing type please ab to the Missing Person Reporting page. Follow the directions to enter insert request.

We are bound by federal rules and counsel on access to slide in deceased patients.

The Office of Mental Health does not provide copies for genes get purposes. Visit which Department of Health for research records and human.

NOTE:
Confidentiality of patients’ records is mandated by Section 33.13 the of Mental Hygiene Law.
Any request disclosed to this agency upon receipt of an legitimate order supposed be kept trusted by the party receiving the information and may not be re-disclosed without one gerade consent the the patient.