Visiting Hours are 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for units excluding ICU, CCU, PCU and Mental Health. Mental Health visiting hours are 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily.

Visiting hours vary according to the different hospital floors. If you are a patient, or a family member or friend of a patient, ask the nurse on your floor for the visiting hours.

Hospital Entrances
Main Hospital Visitors will be asked to register at the Visitor Welcome Desk inside the main hospital entrance.

Visitors entering the hospital through the Emergency Department can visit Emergency patients. To visit a patient in another area of the hospital, please check-in at the Visitor Welcome Desk.

Identification
Visitors may be asked to present valid government issued photo identification to obtain a visitor pass. Visitors without identification will be asked to wait until security approves their visit with the patient and staff. Minors (12-15) will not be allowed to visit without adult supervision. Minors (16-18) may be asked to present valid government issued photo identification to obtain a visitor badge.

Visitors will be asked to present valid government issued photo identification when requesting to visit a room or patient with visitor restrictions.

Visitors will be asked to display their visitor pass at all times while in the hospital. Anyone without a pass will be asked to leave patient care areas.

Visiting Policies

• Three visitors per patient at one time are permitted. Security will contact patients who have more than three visitors and request that some visitors leave and check-out at the Visitor Welcome Desk before additional visitors are allowed to proceed to the patient’s room

• Children under twelve (12) years of age will not be permitted to visit patients.

• Visitors may be asked to leave when patient care is to be administered. Nursing staff will explain the circumstances to visitors, asking them to wait in the appropriate waiting area until the patient and/or roommate is able to see visitors.

• Visitors are not permitted to utilize patient bathrooms or other patient facilities.

• Visitors are not to sit or lie down on patient beds.

• If, at any time, the hospital staff feels that a visitor is being disruptive and/or presents a threat to the care and safety of the patients, visitors or hospital employees, that visitor will be asked to leave the hospital.

• Only visitors with special wristbands will be allowed to visit after hours.

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Women & Infants Pavilion

In order to ensure our patients' safety, please sign-in and wear visitor badges above the waist at all times.

Labor & Delivery Triage
A limit of (1) visitor may visit the patient anytime while the patient is in triage. Other visitors will be asked to wait in the Main Lobby. Visitors must be at least 12 years of age to visit. The Nursing Staff will provide visitor badges. No visitor switching is allowed in triage observation due to limited space.

Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) & Surgery
Only one visitor is allowed to be with the patient during surgery and recovery. For safety, no switching of visitors is allowed during this time. The Admitting department will provide visitor badges for surgery.

Labor & Delivery: Open Visitation
Antepartum Visiting Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
A limit of (3) visitors may visit the patient at one time. Visitors must be at least twelve (12) years of age to visit. Others will be asked to remain in the Main Lobby until the previous visitor has returned their visitor badge to the Security Welcome Desk in the Main Lobby. After delivery, siblings may visit their new brother or sister in the Labor & Delivery room. After delivery, all visitor badges must be returned to the Nurses' Station. At that time guests can request a Couplet Care visitor badge from the Security Welcome Desk in the Main Lobby.

Couplet Care (Mom & Baby Care)
Visiting Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
A limit of (3) visitors may visit the patient at one time. The person who has the baby band is considered a visitor. Visitors must be twelve (12) years of age to visit. Others will be asked to remain in the Main Lobby until the previous visitor has returned their visitor badge to the Security Welcome Desk located in the Main Lobby. If a delivery occurs after visiting hours, three (3) adult visitors will be allowed at one time for approximately one hour to visit.

Antepartum & Couplet Care Family Bonding
Visiting Hours: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Family Bonding time is a special time for siblings of any age to visit. Children may not visit a patient's room unless they are the children or child of the patient. Children must be accompained by an adult at all times.

NICU Visitation Policy

Parents and other designated visitors are welcome in the unit any time of the day or night, except when the nurses are changing shifts (6:30-8:00 am and 6:30-8:00 p.m.). This is a very busy time when many people are in the unit and it can become stressful for your baby if people are visiting during these times. There may be times during doctor’s rounds, certain emergency procedures or special circumstances when you may be asked to leave the unit temporarily so your baby can be properly cared for.

The mother of baby will be asked to identify a maximum of 5 visitors (in addition to herself) who will be allowed to visit the baby in the NICU or Nursery. These 5 visitors may include the father of the baby, grandparents, or any other designated person who is over the age of 12.

Grandparents who are chosen as designated visitors will be allowed to visit without the parents present; other designated visitors may visit when accompanied by one of the baby’s parents. There is a limit of 2 people that can be at the baby’s bedside at any time.

The baby’s siblings (brothers and sisters) are welcome to visit during Family Bonding hours (2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. daily), provided their immunizations are current and they are free of rash, runny nose, fever, earache, or other illness. You will be asked to provide a copy of their immunization record the first time they visit. During Family Bonding hours both parents and one of the baby’s siblings will be allowed at the baby’s bedside. Sibling visits under the age of 6 will be limited to a 30-minute time period. Siblings must be able to sit quietly in a chair at the baby’s bedside.

All visitors must perform a 3-minute scrub prior to entering the baby’s room.

No children other than a baby’s brothers and sisters are allowed in the NICU waiting area if they are younger than 12 years old.

Please sign-out and return all visitor badges to Security after your visit is over.