Visiting a patient
General guidelines
Visiting hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors need to check in with the clerk at your unit’s information desk first. Some units have special guidelines.
Parents are welcome to visit at any time of the day or night (24 hours a day).
If you visit after 7 p.m., please use the Atrium entrance.
Your child can have up to four (4) visitors at one time, including parents or guardians. This may vary on each unit. Please ask the unit nursing staff how many visitors are allowed. Some areas of the hospital have different visiting policies.
Please remember to wash your hands or use hand gel sanitizer before and after visiting your child.
When your child is admitted, the information clerk or the nursing staff on your child's nursing unit will ask you to complete a Family Identification badge. This ID badge will include your home unit, and your first and last name. For security purposes, you are asked to wear the ID badge and carry identification during your child's stay.
Make sure your child knows when you are leaving and when you will be back. If you find it hard to leave your child, talk to your nurse. He or she can help make leaving your child easier for both you and your child.
Healthy visitors only, PLEASE!
Do not visit the hospital if you are sick or have been sick in the last week.
The nursing unit will ask questions to make sure that visiting children under 12 years of age are free of infectious diseases. Visitors under the age of 12 will be checked to make sure they are healthy and will be given a "badge of good health" sticker. Children who do not receive a "badge of good health" may be asked to visit when they are healthy again.
Family members and children over 12 years of age should check themselves for the following symptoms before they come to the hospital:
- a fever
- a new or unexplained cough
- an unexplained shortness of breath
- diarrhea or vomiting
- runny nose/sneezing
- rash
If you have these symptoms, please stay home.
Reminder Clean hands! Please wash your hands with gel sanitizer whenever you visit your child.