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The website helps users locate hospital-related information, but it does not provide healthcare, emergency response, medical advice, appointment booking, insurance advice or patient records support.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"auh-emergency\"><strong>For serious or urgent medical help in Australia, call Triple Zero (000).<\/strong><p>aussihospitals.org\/ is not an emergency service and does not monitor urgent requests. If someone is seriously injured, has chest pain, breathing difficulty, stroke symptoms, severe bleeding, loss of consciousness, or another time-critical emergency, call <strong>000<\/strong> for ambulance, police or fire.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"auh-section\"><h2>Permitted Use<\/h2><ul class=\"auh-list\"><li>Use the site to find hospital names, locations, official links and contact routes.<\/li><li>Share page links with family, carers or colleagues for informational purposes.<\/li><li>Submit corrections for factual directory details.<\/li><li>Use official hospital links for appointments, records, patient portals, billing or visiting information.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"auh-section\"><h2>Prohibited Use<\/h2><ul class=\"auh-list\"><li>Do not use this site for emergency communication or urgent medical decisions.<\/li><li>Do not scrape, copy or republish large portions of the site without permission.<\/li><li>Do not submit medical records, images, symptoms or sensitive patient data.<\/li><li>Do not impersonate a hospital, doctor, government agency or patient.<\/li><li>Do not attempt to manipulate rankings, reviews or hospital pages with promotional claims.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"auh-section\"><h2>Independence and No Affiliation<\/h2><p>aussihospitals.org\/ is independent. 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