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NorthCrest Medical Center, a not-for-profit community hospital, has been providing compassionate, quality healthcare since 1956. With a mission of enhancing community and patient wellness, NorthCrest provides inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medical services to Northern Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. For more information about physicians and services offered by NorthCrest Medical Center, call the NorthCrest HealthLine at 615/384-1600 or visit our website at www.northcrest.com.

These guidelines are for anyone who may wish to interact with NorthCrest through social media.

We encourage your posts and comments in social media channels maintained and managed by NorthCrest. Since this is a public page for health information sharing and education, please do not include any medical, personal or confidential information in your comments. If you have questions regarding personal or confidential health information or require medical advice, please contact us via e-mail at socialmedia@northcrest.com

Please understand that we cannot offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment through our social channels. If you have a question about your specific medical condition, please contact your doctor or qualified healthcare professional. In the event of a medical emergency, call 911.

For your privacy, you should consider carefully before posting personal information to the Internet. By submitting content (posts, comments, photos, checking in, etc.) to a NorthCrest social networking site, you understand this information is publicly available, and NorthCrest may use this information in staff, family and external publications and other communications. If you do not wish to have your information published, please do not post information to any NorthCrest social channel.

While this is NorthCrest’s page, it is offered to you to help connect with others and to access educational information. NorthCrest reserves the ultimate right to delete any postings, comments, threads, or block users that meet the following criteria:

• Comments that violate the privacy of our patients and their families
• Content that violates copyright or that may be confidential
• Comments intending to sell or promote products, programs or services not related to or affiliated with NorthCrest
• Comments that are abusive, slanderous, unlawful, obscene, hateful, threatening, abusive, harassing, or an infringement of another’s rights
• Personal attacks or defamatory comments or just expressing a difference of opinion
• Comments that our social media representatives deem inappropriate or offensive
• NorthCrest may also remove from discussion threads any comments that are off topic, repetitive, or “spam”

DISCLAIMER:
NorthCrest Medical Center’s Facebook page may provide links to other Facebook pages or external Internet sites for the convenience of users. NCMC has no control over which advertisers are selected for display on this site. NCMC is not responsible for the availability or content of these sites, nor does NCMC endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other Facebook pages or Internet sites.

By posting any content on any Social Media Site, you grant NorthCrest Medical Center the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any NCMC purpose.