LAORA, a Division of the University of Miami Department of Surgery, functions as nonprofit service organization who obtains organs for clinical transplantation throughout Southeast Florida and transports them to transplant centers within the U.S. Please adhere to the following terms of use when participating in conversation on LAORA’s page. If you do not wish to abide by these terms, please exit the site. Privacy and Security: By its very nature, a social media site such as this cannot be considered private or secure. You must take appropriate steps to protect your personal information on the Web and on any social media site. Proprietary Information: Employees may not disclose any confidential or proprietary information of or about Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency/University of Miami, its affiliates, vendors, or suppliers, including but not limited to business and financial information, represent that they are communicating the views of Life Alliance, or do anything that might reasonably create the impression that they are communicating on behalf of or as a representative of Life Alliance. Content: Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency reserves the right to delete user posts or content for reasons including but not limited to: posts contain confidential/ proprietary information; content of posts conflicts with any LAORA policy; posts contain donor or clinical activity information; posts are unprofessional or inflammatory (i.e., libelous, defamatory, false, obscene, indecent, lewd, violent, abusive, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, etc.); posts adversely affect LAORA’s positive image; posts contain misinformation about donation or in general; posts contain anything that discourages donor designation; posts contain anything that adversely affects volunteer involvement; and/or posts are overall offensive to supporters. Anyone who continues to disregard these guidelines will be blocked from the site. Personal Health Information: No one may use or disclose any member/patient identifiable information of any kind on any social media without the expressed written permission of the member/patient. Even if an individual is not identified by name within the information you wish to use or disclose, if there is a reasonable basis to believe that the person could still be identified from that information, then its use or disclosure could constitute a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Content that includes personal health information (whether yours or someone else’s) and photos of patients or donors that are not already in the public domain, cannot be posted to this site. To protect the privacy of both donor families and recipients, Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency (LAORA) adheres to established protocol that guides donor family-transplant recipient communications. As Facebook is an online communication forum for the public at large, LAORA will maintain its page in accordance with this its donor family-recipient Communications Policy, as well as the University of Miami’s Social Networking Policy’s terms of use and rules (http://www.med.miami.edu/hipaa/public/documents/social_networking_policy.pdf). In brief, we ask that recipients not post information on LAORA’s page that would allow anyone to reasonably identify his/her donor. We also ask that donor families not post information on our page that would allow anyone to reasonably identify donors. The Communications Policy can be found in detail at http://surgery.med.miami.edu/laora/donor-family-services/donor-family-and-recipient-communication. Medical Advice: Specific medical advice can only be provided by a physician. If you have specific questions concerning your health or medical status, please consult your personal physician. Copyright/Trademark: Only post, upload or transmit content that you have copyrighted or have permission to post from the original source. Self-Hosted Sites: Employees must not say or suggest that the views and opinions they express related to LAORA and health care topics represent the official views of LAORA. Products/Endorsements: We do not allow any posts that are considered endorsements of products or services. Additionally, users should not use this site to solicit contributions. Thank you for visiting and supporting our page! If you have comments or suggestions, please send us a private message.
