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Your parent’s results and records at Main Line

How to see your parent’s Main Line Health MyChart account with your own login, how to get copies from the records office, and how to keep the results in one place.

From Main Line Health’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.

See your parent’s Main Line Health 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 Main Line: a registered user requests it with a form, for a patient who wishes to grant access.

  1. 1Download and complete the form Authorization for Proxy Access for an Adult Patient.
  2. 2Follow the form's instructions to send it. The page does not say where it goes.
  3. 3Once access is granted, log in to MyChart. You will see an icon for each profile you can open.
Main Line Health’s official page

Get copies without the portal

From the Health Information Management.

  1. 1Download the Authorization for Disclosure of Health Information form. Read the instructions on page 2.
  2. 2Your parent fills in the records wanted, the purpose, your name and address, an end date, and signs it.
  3. 3Send it by mail, email or fax (610.356.3167), as the page lists.
  4. 4Psychiatric, drug or alcohol, HIV/AIDS and sexual abuse records need the form to name them.
Family members:
Records can be released to anyone the patient authorized in writing. Authorizations signed by a representative must include a copy of the guardianship papers or power of attorney.
Cost, as the hospital states it:
In accordance with PA state law, fees are charged for copies: $2.00 per page for pages 1-20, $1.48 for pages 21-60, $0.52 for pages 61-end, plus postage if mailed. No charge for records provided directly to your physician.

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.
US Department of Health and Human Services

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 Main Line. Paper copies work too: take a photo of each page.

Vita Health Coach on the App Store

Questions

How do I see my parent's results at Main Line?

Ask for family access to your parent's Main Line Health MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). A registered user requests it with a form, for a patient who wishes to grant access. Download and complete the form Authorization for Proxy Access for an Adult Patient. Follow the form's instructions to send it. The page does not say where it goes. Once access is granted, log in to MyChart. You will see an icon for each profile you can open.

How do I get copies of my parent's records from Main Line without the portal?

Ask the Health Information Management. Download the Authorization for Disclosure of Health Information form. Read the instructions on page 2. Your parent fills in the records wanted, the purpose, your name and address, an end date, and signs it. Send it by mail, email or fax (610.356.3167), as the page lists. Psychiatric, drug or alcohol, HIV/AIDS and sexual abuse records need the form to name them.

How do I keep my parent's Main Line 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 Main Line 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 Main Line Health, and its name belongs to it.