Patients & Visitors
Current Visitor Guidelines
Seeking Care
To prevent exposure to others, individuals who have mild symptoms are strongly encouraged to:
- Call your healthcare provider for guidance.
For your safety, as well as the safety of patients and caregivers
Emergency departments are open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Screeners will staff facility entrances 24/7 until further notice and will reinforce the following restrictions:
- Everyone who enters the hospital is screened, including staff.
- No visitors with respiratory or flu-like symptoms (cold, cough, fever, muscle aches) are permitted to visit patients or wait within the facility.
- Everyone over the age of two is expected to wear a mask.
Hospital Visitation:
- Patient with end-of-life situation - 2 visitors
- Patient staying in the intensive care unit - 1 visitor
- Patient staying on a medical/surgical Floor - 1 visitor
- Patient during labor and delivery - 1 visitor
- Patient staying in postpartum care - 1 visitor at a time
- Pediatric and NICU - 2 parents, guardians or family care partners
- No visitors will be permitted for patients staying in senior mental health units
- No visitors will be permitted for patients staying in the COVID units
- No minor family members or visitors, under 16 years of age, will be permitted
When possible, the designated support person should remain the same for the course of the admission. Hours vary. Please call hospital location for visitation times.
Outpatient Procedure Visitation:
- Patients having an outpatient procedure or test - 1 visitor permitted
ER Visitation:
- Patients coming for services in the ER - 1 visitor permitted
- No minor family members or visitors, under 18 years of age, will be permitted.
First Hospital
- No inpatient visitation permitted