Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital

General information

We are a non-profit, sub-acute hospital in Baltimore treating children with serious, chronic and/or complex medical needs on an inpatient, outpatient and day program basis.

So what is your Facebook comments policy?
We are glad you asked. Please read our rules of the road below.

Guidelines for Posting on MWPH Social Media Sites
(Rules for General Public and Staff)

We encourage your comments on Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital’s various social media outlets and look forward to hearing from you. Outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Caring Bridge, just to name a few, are important ways to connect with others and share ideas and viewpoints.

When posting, we request that you be respectful and courteous at all times, and to avoid posting comments or material considered by most to be profane, obscene, sexually explicit, inappropriate, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable or inaccurate.

An important reminder: All postings to MWPH sites or other social media outlets are accessible to anyone on the internet, likely for years to come. Please consider how much personal information you share.

Here are some basic pointers regarding posting material:

• Be respectful. Avoid comments that are profane, obscene, offensive, sexually explicit, inappropriate, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable or inaccurate.

• Abide by the law. Do not post material that the hospital deems is threatening, harassing, illegal, defamatory, slanderous, or hostile towards any individual or entity; do not violate any local, state or federal laws, or use copyrighted material.

• Don’t Sell. Do not post advertisements or solicitations for business, chain letters or pyramid schemes. Do not solicit support for groups or organizations except those officially sponsored by MWPH.

• Be Transparent. Identify who you are when posting. Do not allow anyone else or any other entity to post for you.

• Be Discreet. Do not post phone numbers or email addresses of yourself or any other individual or entity in the body of your posting—you cannot assume the good intentions of everyone who reads them.

MWPH reserves the right to do any or all of the following:

1. Ban future posts from people who repeatedly violate our Terms and Conditions. We may affect such bans by refusing posts from specific email addresses or IP addresses, or through other means as necessary.

2. Remove or edit comments at any time, whether or not they violate these Terms and Conditions.

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital reserves the right to reject or remove comments or material for any reason, including but not limited to our belief that the comments or material violate this Comments Policy, to determine in its sole discretion which submissions meet its qualifications for posting, and to remove comments for any reason, including but not limited to our belief that the comments violate these Terms and Conditions. Any submissions that fail to follow these Terms and Conditions in any way or are otherwise irrelevant will not be posted. Due to the sheer volume or appropriateness, MWPH will not respond to every posting, especially those that address individual medical issues.

Users agree to indemnify and hold harmless Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, successors and assigns against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, causes of action, costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of any claim by a third party relating to any material user has posted on the MWPH-sponsored sites.

By posting a comment or material of any kind on a MWPH-sponsored site, the user hereby agrees to the Terms and Conditions set forth above.

MWPH also reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time in our judgment to address issues that may arise and changes in our operations or the law.

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Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Social Media
Guidelines for Posting on MWPH Social Media Sites
(Rules for General Public and Staff)

We encourage your comments on Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital’s various social media outlets and look forward to hearing from you. Outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Caring Bridge, just to name a few, are important ways to connect with others and share ideas and viewpoints.

When posting, we request that you be respectful and courteous at all times, and to avoid posting comments or material considered by most to be profane, obscene, sexually explicit, inappropriate, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable or inaccurate.

An important reminder: All postings to MWPH sites or other social media outlets are accessible to anyone on the internet, likely for years to come. Please consider how much personal information you share.

Here are some basic pointers regarding posting material:

• Be respectful. Avoid comments that are profane, obscene, offensive, sexually explicit, inappropriate, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable or inaccurate.

• Abide by the law. Do not post material that the hospital deems is threatening, harassing, illegal, defamatory, slanderous, or hostile towards any individual or entity; do not violate any local, state or federal laws, or use copyrighted material.

• Don’t Sell. Do not post advertisements or solicitations for business, chain letters or pyramid schemes. Do not solicit support for groups or organizations except those officially sponsored by MWPH.

• Be Transparent. Identify who you are when posting. Do not allow anyone else or any other entity to post for you.

• Be Discreet. Do not post phone numbers or email addresses of yourself or any other individual or entity in the body of your posting—you cannot assume the good intentions of everyone who reads them.

MWPH reserves the right to do any or all of the following:

1. Ban future posts from people who repeatedly violate our Terms and Conditions. We may affect such bans by refusing posts from specific email addresses or IP addresses, or through other means as necessary.

2. Remove or edit comments at any time, whether or not they violate these Terms and Conditions.

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital reserves the right to reject or remove comments or material for any reason, including but not limited to our belief that the comments or material violate this Comments Policy, to determine in its sole discretion which submissions meet its qualifications for posting, and to remove comments for any reason, including but not limited to our belief that the comments violate these Terms and Conditions. Any submissions that fail to follow these Terms and Conditions in any way or are otherwise irrelevant will not be posted. Due to the sheer volume or appropriateness, MWPH will not respond to every posting, especially those that address individual medical issues.

Users agree to indemnify and hold harmless Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, successors and assigns against any damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, causes of action, costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of any claim by a third party relating to any material user has posted on the MWPH-sponsored sites.

By posting a comment or material of any kind on a MWPH-sponsored site, the user hereby agrees to the Terms and Conditions set forth above.

MWPH also reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time in our judgment to address issues that may arise and changes in our operations or the law.

Questions or concerns, please contact Kathleen Lee, MWPH Director of Public Relations at klee@mwph.org.