Visitor Guidelines
Visitor GuidelinesWe have policies and procedures in place to help you and your family work with doctors, nurses, and staff to get the most from your hospital stay. Please take a few minutes to review these guidelines with your loved ones.
To assure a safe environment that promotes healing, please follow these visiting guidelines:
- Visitors should be 12 years of age or older. Children ages 6 through 11 must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Please contact the nursing station regarding visitation of children under six years of age.
- All visitors, regardless of age, must be free from fever, sore throat, flu or colds, diarrhea or rashes, and communicable diseases including chickenpox, measles, mumps and respiratory illness.
Before visiting, please:
- Avoid bringing latex balloons.
- Check with the patient's primary nurse before bringing special food or drinks to the patient.
While visiting, please:
- Limit visitors in the patient's room to 2 at a time. Other visitors may wait in the visitor lounge.
- Use the public restrooms on each patient floor instead of the restroom in the patient's room.
- Be considerate of the patient's roommate.
- Leave the patient's room when visiting hours are over, when treatment is administered, or at a physician's or nurse's request.
- Refrain from using cell phones in patient rooms, medical treatment rooms, exam rooms, or any room where medical tests are performed.
- Do not eat in a patient's room.
Visitor Lounges
Lounges are available for the convienience of patients and their families in the following areas:
- Surgery waiting in the outpatient area
- Intensive Care Unit
- Family Birthing Suites
- Upper Level of the main lobby
- Emergency Department waiting area
- Pediatric playroom
- 2 South and 2 East Family rooms
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