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Legal notice and disclaimer

Welcome to the UC Davis Health website. This website is operated and managed by University of California, Davis.

All health and health-related information contained within UC Davis Health's website is intended to be general in nature and should not be used as a substitute for medical treatment by a health care professional. Your health-care provider should be consulted regarding matters concerning the medical condition, treatment and needs of you and your family.

UC Davis Health is committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors. By visiting this site, you may create information that we use to monitor our effectiveness in providing information to our users, answer questions and improve this website. This monitoring does not provide us with confidential information such as names and/or addresses of users. Outside of MyUCDavisHealth, only non-confidential and non-proprietary information should be transmitted to the site by electronic mail or otherwise.

Every effort is made to ensure that the material within this website is accurate and timely, however, this should not be considered official and should be confirmed with other reliable sources. This information is provided without warranty for quality or accuracy. The Regents of the University of California; the University of California, Davis; UC Davis Health; nor any other contributing author is responsible for any errors or omissions in any information provided or the results obtained from the use of such information.

Some pages within this website, for the convenience of users, are linked to or may refer to websites not managed by UC Davis Health. UC Davis Health does not control or take responsibility for the content of these websites.

The views and opinions of the documents in this website do not imply endorsement or credibility of the service, information or product offered through the linked sites by UC Davis Health.

UC Davis Health provides limited personal permission to use the website. This website is limited in that you may not:

  • Use, download or print material from this site for commercial use such as selling, creating course packets or posting information on another website.
  • Change or delete propriety notices from material downloaded or printed from this website.
  • Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material, any propriety information belonging to others or any material that could be deemed as or encourage criminal activity, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate the law.
  • Use the website in a manner contrary to any applicable law.

You should assume that everything you see or read on this website is copyrighted by University of California or others unless otherwise noted. You may download information from this website as long as it is not used for commercial purposes and you retain the proprietary notices. You may not use, modify, make multiple copies or distribute or transmit the contents of this site for public or commercial purposes without the express consent of UC Davis Health.

Commitment to quality and safety

UC Davis Medical Center is accredited by the The Joint Commission. The commission is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of safety and quality of care in all health-care settings, and its accreditation is recognized within the health-care industry as a symbol of quality. UC Davis Medical Center demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to provide safe, high-quality care and a willingness to be measured against the highest standards of performance.

If you have any concerns about your care or safety at UC Davis Medical Center that has not been addressed to your satisfaction, you are encouraged to contact medical center management through our Patient Relations department at 916-734-5527. Or, you may wish to contact our Patient Contact Center at 1-800-2-UC-DAVIS with other questions or concerns.

We value your privacy

Please view our privacy policy or visit UC Davis Health's Compliance Office website.