Regarding your right to Privacy and Notice of Privacy Practices

To all Members:

            The Garden City Teachers Association Benefit Trust Fund  issued a HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices ("Privacy Notice") describing how health information about individuals covered by the Fund may be used and disclosed.  The Fund distributed the Privacy Notice to all covered members in April 2004. 

            However, the HIPAA Privacy Rule requires that, every three years, the Fund notify currently covered members of the availability of the Privacy Notice and how to obtain a copy of it.

            You may obtain a copy of the Fund's Privacy Notice by writing

                    to:     the Fund's Privacy Officer

                    at:     the Garden City Teachers Association Benefit Trust Fund

                                     Garden City High School   

                                       170 Rockaway Avenue 

                                       Garden City, NY 11530