WhidbeyHealth Medical Center

General information

WhidbeyHealth Medical Center is home to award-winning cancer care, all-digital diagnostic imaging and a medical staff featuring board-certified physicians in family practice, internal medicine, general surgery, obstetrics/gynecology and many other areas. We provide a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including surgical care, acute care, cardiac care, cancer care, diabetes management, treatment for sleep disorders and physical, speech and occupational therapy. Committed to the health and well-being of Whidbey Island since 1970, we offer community education with free programs on topics such as diabetes prevention, nutrition for health and car seat safety.

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

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The opinions and or views expressed by WhidbeyHealth (also known as Whidbey Island Public Hospital District) social media platforms, including, but not limited to, our blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, represent the thoughts of individuals and online communities, and not those necessarily of WhidbeyHealth or any of its corporate affiliates or any of their respective officers, employees, medical staff or members of its respective board of directors. The opinions and views expressed on these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved with maintaining the site or any members of the site.

WhidbeyHealth makes reasonable efforts to monitor and/or moderate content posted on its social media platforms, but we do not moderate all comments and cannot always respond in a timely manner to online requests for information.

WhidbeyHealth reserves the sole right to review, edit and/or delete any comments it deems are inappropriate. Comments including but not limited to the following may be deleted or edited by the moderators:
• Abusive or hurtful comments directed toward another individual author or content creator
• Off-topic and redundant comments (this includes promotion of events, groups, pages, websites, organizations and programs not related to, approved by, or affiliated with WhidbeyHealth).
• Comments that use foul language or "hate speech" (for example, including but not limited to racial, ethnic or gender bashing language)
• Personal attacks or defamatory statements or comments (i.e., making negative personal or untrue comments about an author), instead of just criticizing his/her posting, opinion or comments
• Comments/photos/video that violate the privacy of patients and their families

Information posted on one of our sites is not intended to be medical advice and should not be considered medical advice, nor is it intended to replace consultation with a qualified physician or other healthcare provider. Links to other websites from WhidbeyHealth social media sites are provided as a service to readers, but such linkage does not constitute endorsement of those sites by WhidbeyHealth, and as such we are not responsible for the content of external websites.

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