Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Social Media: Connect With Fletcher Allen
Fletcher Allen recognizes that our patients and their families use social media. We believe in actively participating in those conversations to help raise awareness of the high quality academic care, leading edge research, and programs we provide to the community. We invite you to join us in the conversation!
Where Can You Find Us ?
Facebook - an online social forum that connects people and organizations with friends and others who work, study, live, and engage around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, to share links, to share photos and videos of themselves and their friends, and to learn more about people and organizations. Fletcher Allen will use Facebook to highlight upcoming events, hospital services and encourage a two-way dialog with our patients and their families.
http://www.facebook.com/fletcherallenhealthcare
Twitter — a micro-blogging and online social forum that allows its users to send and read messages known as tweets, text-based posts of no more than 140 characters. People use twitter to share and view links, pictures, videos, opinions, news, professional information, personal status and more. Fletcher Allen will use Twitter to highlight upcoming events and hospital services.
http://www.twitter.com/fletcherallen/
Blog (Wordpress) — an online site short for “web log” that allows an individual or group to share a running log of personal insights, writings, events, news, and more. The Fletcher Allen blog will feature Fletcher Allen physicians and subject matter experts on a variety of healthcare topics. We encourage you to share and comment on these posts. New articles will be posted at scheduled times each week.
http://fletcherallenblog.wordpress.com/
YouTube — a video sharing website on which users can view, upload, and share videos and comments on other’s videos. Fletcher Allen posts informational videos on a wide variety of topics from First With Kids to Arrythymias.
http://www.youtube.com/fletcherallen/
Fletcher Allen Social Media Disclaimer
Fletcher Allen’s participation in social media (Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, and YouTube) is to provide information for educational purposes only.
Social media should not be used for confidential personal medical issues or advice. The information provided should in no way be taken to be the provision or practice of medical, nursing or health care diagnosis, advice or be considered a substitute for a call, visit, consultation or advice from your physician or other health care providers. The fact that someone has posted information on our site does not mean that we have evaluated it or that we endorse or recommend it.
If you have specific health-related questions or a health problem, please call your physician or other health care provider. Find a Fletcher Allen-affiliated doctor at provider.fletcherallen.org.
Except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by Fletcher Allen, Fletcher Allen does not operate, control or endorse in any way information, products, services or comments posted by third parties on this website.
Fletcher Allen Facebook and User-Generated Content
By viewing or posting comments, links or other information on any of Fletcher Allen’s social media channels, you agree to:
- Not post personal medical information.
- Be respectful of others.
- Not use language that discriminates based on race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.
- Not post anything that is obscene, abusive, libelous, threatening or otherwise illegal.
- Not impersonate any other person or allow another person to use your identity to post or view comments.
- Not post advertisements, business solicitations or spam.
- Not post materials that are copyrighted or trademarked.
- Post comments that are appropriate and relevant.
All comments and other posts are subject to review by Fletcher Allen. Those that do not abide by these policies will be removed.
Share Your Opinion
Fletcher Allen welcomes your questions and comments about privacy. Please feel free to send us an email at socialmedia@vtmednet.org.
