Limited exceptions include:
- Special
Circumstance: The clinical team has determined a visitor is
required due to the patient’s emotional, spiritual, or physical safety
status or an in-person care coordination/decision meeting is required
(e.g., an oncology patient/a cath lab patient). The clinical team would
determine the frequency and duration.
- Caretaker: Visitor
is/was acting as a CARETAKER for a patient that is:
- Confirmed
by the clinical team that a caretaker is currently required to support
patient care
- Dependent
on the caretaker prior to admission to receive assistance with activities
of daily living such as feeding, bathing, toileting, and communication
- Disoriented
(e.g., traumatic brain injury, dementia, Alzheimer’s, altered mental
state)
- Disabled
(e.g., developmentally, hearing, autistic)
- In
need of an interpreter
- Patients
receiving end-of-life care
- Patients who are
receiving neonatal, pediatric, adolescent care: minor
patients may have two parents or guardians visit.
- Maternity
patients: Patients receiving maternity care are limited to one
support person, who may stay at the hospital for the duration of the stay.
If the mother is a minor, she may have a parent or guardian visitor and the other parent of the baby.
- Ultrasound office visit - one person will be allowed.
There
will be no time limits on approved visitors.
There will be no
visitation restriction on members of the clergy and those with power of
attorney.
Power of attorney applies only to a person who is making decisions for a patient who is unable to do so, based upon the physician’s evaluation of the patient’s cognitive abilities.
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