Nondiscrimination and language assistance

Discrimination is against the law

Bay Area Neuropsychiatry (Lodhi Medical Group, PC) complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), age, disability, or sex. Bay Area Neuropsychiatry does not exclude people or treat them less favorably because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

Free aids and language services

Bay Area Neuropsychiatry:

• Provides people with disabilities reasonable modifications and free appropriate auxiliary aids and services to communicate effectively with us, such as:
  • Qualified sign language interpreters
  • Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)
• Provides free language assistance services to people whose primary language is not English, which may include:
  • Qualified interpreters
  • Information written in other languages

If you need reasonable modifications, appropriate auxiliary aids and services, or language assistance services, contact our Office Manager:

Filing a complaint

If you believe that Bay Area Neuropsychiatry has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can contact our Office Manager at the address, phone number, or email above.

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/smartscreen/main.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

Complaint forms are available at https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.

This notice is available at Bay Area Neuropsychiatry’s website: https://bayareaneuropsychiatry.com/nondiscrimination/.