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Your parent’s results and records at Virtua

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

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

See your parent’s Virtua 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 Virtua: the patient submits a request form.

  1. 1Your parent signs in to Virtua MyChart and opens the Menu next to the Home icon.
  2. 2They scroll to Sharing and select the adult proxy request form. A PDF version is also on Virtua's page.
  3. 3They enter your name, date of birth, address, email and phone, then submit.
  4. 4After it is processed, you get an activation code and sign-up instructions.
Virtua Health’s official page

Get copies without the portal

From the Health Information Management Department.

  1. 1Fill in the Release of Patient Information form. Your parent signs it and names you.
  2. 2Add a note with the date, or about the date, of the visit, procedure or hospital stay.
  3. 3Mail or fax it to the Health Information Management Department of the hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's fax is on the page (for example Voorhees: 856-247-3758).
  4. 4Or bring the request, the form and a government photo ID in person, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm. Requests by phone are not accepted.

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 Virtua. 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 Virtua?

Ask for family access to your parent's Virtua MyChart account (hospitals call it proxy access). The patient submits a request form. Your parent signs in to Virtua MyChart and opens the Menu next to the Home icon. They scroll to Sharing and select the adult proxy request form. A PDF version is also on Virtua's page. They enter your name, date of birth, address, email and phone, then submit. After it is processed, you get an activation code and sign-up instructions.

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

Ask the Health Information Management Department. Fill in the Release of Patient Information form. Your parent signs it and names you. Add a note with the date, or about the date, of the visit, procedure or hospital stay. Mail or fax it to the Health Information Management Department of the hospital where your parent was treated. Each hospital's fax is on the page (for example Voorhees: 856-247-3758). Or bring the request, the form and a government photo ID in person, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm. Requests by phone are not accepted.

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