Your parent’s results and records at RWJBarnabas Health

See your parent’s RWJBarnabas 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 RWJBarnabas Health: the patient sends the invitation from their own account.

1. 1Your parent opens the Friends and Family Access page in their MyChart.
2. 2They send you a proxy invite.
3. 3You must be at least 18 and have your own MyChart account.

Get copies without the portal

From the Medical Records.

1. 1Download the release form. Your parent fills it in, signs it and names you.
2. 2Or use the online request form linked on the page and choose electronic delivery (an email with a link to a PDF).
3. 3Return the paper form as the form or the hospital's own page directs. Each hospital has its own address.
4. 4Bring proper identification.

Family members:

For an adult family member's records, the adult family member's permission (signature) is required. Proper identification will be required.

Cost, as the hospital states it:

Requests for copies of medical records for continuing care to be sent directly to another health care provider are free of charge. For all other requests, there is a reasonable cost based fee for copies of medical records.

Time, as the hospital states it:

Most requests will be processed within 3 to 5 business days. Some requests for records that may be in storage or off-site locations may take up to 30 days. Allow 3 additional days for mail delivery.

The records office pageThe request form

Questions