Editorial Policy
How We Research, Write, Review and Update Hospital Guides
Every hospital page is written for practical navigation. Our editorial rules keep the content useful, specific, source-backed, and clearly separated from medical advice.
ushospitalguides.com/ is built for hospital-location and patient-navigation questions. We help users find official hospital pages, addresses, phone routes, appointment links, patient portals, billing pages, medical-record routes, parking and visiting information. We do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment instructions, triage, or emergency care.
Editorial Principles
- Write for the person trying to complete a real task: call, visit, schedule, log in, request records, pay a bill, or find directions
- Use official hospital and government sources before third-party directories
- Keep page copy factual and practical, not promotional
- Make emergency wording clear: call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department for emergencies
- Avoid disease-treatment advice, triage language, symptom interpretation, diagnosis, or outcome claims
- State uncertainty when official data is incomplete or conflicting
Writer Workflow
- Identify the hospital or health system exactly, including city, state, campus name and common former names.
- Find the official hospital website and official health-system page before using any third-party source.
- Collect practical user routes: address, map, main number, appointment page, portal, billing, records, visiting, parking and department pages.
- Check government or public datasets only as supporting context, not as the final action page when a hospital official page exists.
- Write short, task-focused sections with official links at the step where the user needs them.
- Send the draft to editorial review with source URLs and manual-check notes.
Review Standards
| Stage | What happens | Why it exists |
|---|---|---|
| First review | Writer checks official sources and records URLs | Prevents thin pages and generic filler |
| Editorial review | Editor tests important links and verifies identity | Prevents wrong hospital/campus matches |
| High-risk review | Emergency, billing, records, patient portal and privacy wording | Keeps the page informational, not medical/legal advice |
| Update review | Correction form, official-source changes, scheduled rechecks | Keeps evergreen pages usable over time |
No Medical Advice Rule
Strict boundary
Writers may explain how to find the official emergency department page, appointment page, patient portal, medical records office or financial-assistance route. Writers may not advise what symptoms mean, whether a user should choose one treatment over another, or whether a hospital is clinically appropriate for a specific condition.
Need to report an update?
Send the hospital page URL, the correction, and the official source we should verify against. Our editors review corrections before changing published data.
Contact the editorial teamRead our correction process