Parent portal access · MI
Your parent’s results and records at Corewell
How to see your parent’s MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.
From Corewell Health’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.
See your parent’s MyChart account
Hospitals call this proxy access, or family access. You sign in with your own login and switch to your parent’s account, so you never need their password. At Corewell: the patient sends the invitation from their own account.
- 1Your parent logs in to MyChart, clicks the menu icon and selects Sharing Hub under Sharing.
- 2They choose Family member, close friend, or caretaker, then how they want to share.
- 3They select Invite friends or family, enter your details and submit.
- 4You log in to your MyChart account and accept. You must be at least 18.
Get copies without the portal
From the Health Information Management Department.
- 1Print the authorization form. It also comes in Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese.
- 2Your parent fills it in and signs it by hand, and names you to receive the records.
- 3Send it to the Health Information Management department of the hospital that treated your parent. The page lists each hospital's address, phone and fax.
The records office pageThe request form
Your parent’s rights
- Your parent has a legal right to copies of their own records.
- When your parent asks, the hospital must answer within 30 days. It can take 30 more days once, if it explains why in writing.
- It can charge only a reasonable fee, based on what the copy costs to make.
- These rules also cover an electronic copy your parent asks, in writing, to have sent to you.
Keep the results in one place
Vita Health Coach is an iPhone app that keeps each family member's results in their own file and explains each new result in plain words. Once you have access, add your parent, tap Connect a hospital and search for Corewell. Paper copies work too: take a photo of each page.
Vita Health Coach on the App StoreQuestions
How do I see my parent's results at Corewell?
Ask for family access to your parent's MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient sends the invitation from their own account. Your parent logs in to MyChart, clicks the menu icon and selects Sharing Hub under Sharing. They choose Family member, close friend, or caretaker, then how they want to share. They select Invite friends or family, enter your details and submit. You log in to your MyChart account and accept. You must be at least 18.
How do I get copies of my parent's records from Corewell without the portal?
Ask the Health Information Management Department. Print the authorization form. It also comes in Arabic, Spanish and Vietnamese. Your parent fills it in and signs it by hand, and names you to receive the records. Send it to the Health Information Management department of the hospital that treated your parent. The page lists each hospital's address, phone and fax.
How do I keep my parent's Corewell results in one place?
In Vita Health Coach on iPhone, add your parent as a person, open Health records, tap Connect a hospital, search for Corewell and sign in with your own login once you have family access. Their results arrive in their own file, and you can ask about any result in plain words. Connecting another person's hospital is part of a paid plan in the app.
Other hospitals: portal access by hospital, copies from the records office. Leaving the hospital? What to ask before they go. You can also ask these questions inside ChatGPT with Vita Health Coach for ChatGPT.
General information, not medical or legal advice. This page isn’t connected with Corewell Health, and its name belongs to it.