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Parent portal access · CA

Your parent’s results and records at UCI Health

How to see your parent’s UCI 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 UCI Health’s own pages, checked on November 3, 2026. Steps can change, so follow the official links.

See your parent’s UCI 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 UCI Health: a form signed by the patient, handed to clinic staff.

  1. 1Complete sections 1 to 4 of the Proxy Access form. Use a separate form for each patient.
  2. 2Your parent, or their authorized legal guardian, must give consent. Your parent signs section 4, and you sign too.
  3. 3Present all pages to clinic registration staff.
  4. 4Access starts after your identity is verified, and you use your own MyChart account.
  5. 5The authorization ends five years after your parent signs.
UCI Health’s official page

Get copies without the portal

From the Medical Records (Medical Correspondence).

  1. 1Print the Authorization for Release of Health Information form. Your parent fills it in, signs it and names you.
  2. 2Add a clear copy of a valid photo ID.
  3. 3Fax it to 888-522-3679, or mail it to Medical Correspondence, UCI Medical Center, Building 25, 101 The City Drive South, Route 118, Orange, CA 92868. Email is accepted only from patients and providers.
  4. 4Questions: 714-456-5670, weekdays 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Family members:
Records can be released directly to an authorized family member; the first 20 pages are free.
Cost, as the hospital states it:
There is no charge to send your medical records to another healthcare provider. For records released directly to a patient or an authorized family member there is no charge for the first 20 pages. Additional pages are charged at $0.25 per page.
Time, as the hospital states it:
Please allow seven to 10 business days for processing from date of receipt of the completed authorization. California law permits up to 15 days to respond.

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 UCI Health. 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 UCI Health?

Ask for family access to your parent's UCI Health MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). A form signed by the patient, handed to clinic staff. Complete sections 1 to 4 of the Proxy Access form. Use a separate form for each patient. Your parent, or their authorized legal guardian, must give consent. Your parent signs section 4, and you sign too. Present all pages to clinic registration staff. Access starts after your identity is verified, and you use your own MyChart account. The authorization ends five years after your parent signs.

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

Ask the Medical Records (Medical Correspondence). Print the Authorization for Release of Health Information form. Your parent fills it in, signs it and names you. Add a clear copy of a valid photo ID. Fax it to 888-522-3679, or mail it to Medical Correspondence, UCI Medical Center, Building 25, 101 The City Drive South, Route 118, Orange, CA 92868. Email is accepted only from patients and providers. Questions: 714-456-5670, weekdays 8 am to 4:30 pm.

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