Visiting Hours - Rules and Regulations

Visiting
We encourage all visitors to be very thoughtful about time spent in the hospital. Visiting hours in general are between 9 AM and 9 PM. Special care units may have different hours and limits on the number of visitors; this information will be available from the staff of the nursing unit.

After-hours (10 PM – 4:45 AM) entry to the hospital is available through entrance 4 (the main admissions entrance) and entrance 7 (the first doorway near the parking garage). All other doorways, including the second floor bridge from the parking garage, will be closed during these hours. Entrance 2 (the Day Surgery entrance) opens at 5 AM.

Please remember that visiting children (less than 14 years of age) must be in the care of an adult other than the patient at all times. Visiting children may not spend the night. Children may not visit in the assessment center.

Special visiting guidelines apply to the Neonatal and Special Care units. You will be informed of these guidelines if a friend or family member is a patient in one of these units. If a “Do Not Disturb” sign is on the patient’s door, please check with the nurse before going into the room.

Please set cell phones and pagers to silent operation while in the hospital. All cell phones must be turned off prior to entering the NICU or Special Care Nursery.

Help us provide a quiet, restful place for all patients.

Keeping Patients Healthy
Please do not come to the hospital, or bring children, with a fever, runny nose, sore throat, respiratory infection, skin sores or other contagious illness.

If you, or your children, have been exposed to chicken pox, measles, mumps or whooping cough within the past three weeks you could pass it on while visiting.

Children should have up-to-date shots (immunizations).

Wash your hands before and after touching your loved one or handling a new baby.