Visiting Hours and Guidelines

General Guidelines

Please ask your visitors to adhere to our visiting hours and to observe the following rules. Visitors should:

• Refrain from loud conversation
• Leave the room quietly when asked
• Restrict the number of visitors in the patient's room to no more than two at a time, unless the unit's activity or patient's condition permits additional visitors
• Keep visits to about 15 minutes
• Refrain from sitting on empty patient beds
• Closely supervise children under 14 at all times
• Refrain from visiting if they have a cold, flu-like symptoms or any other communicable disease, no matter how mild those symptoms may seem

Medical/Surgical Units

Visiting hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Parents of children and adolescent patients may visit 24 hours a day; others may visit with permission of the parents between 11:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. daily.

Sun Room (Family Waiting Area)

Located on the fourth floor between the Pew and Rosengarten buildings, adjacent to the elevator lobby, the Sun Room is an area where families may wait for information concerning surgical patients and those in the intensive care units (ICUs) and where physicians can communicate directly with the family. Families of surgical patients will be notified of a patient's arrival in the recovery room, also called the post-anesthesia care room (PACU).

Family members may leave a home phone or cell phone number or hospital extension at the Sun Room information desk, which is staffed by volunteers from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Volunteers also provide coffee and tea.

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Only two adult visitors are allowed at a time. Visiting hours are 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)

Visiting hours are 10:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Mother/Baby Unit

The father or significant other may visit 24 hours a day. Grandparents, siblings and other visitors can visit between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Siblings of newborns must have already had chicken pox. Any other child must have prior approval of nurse in addition to the chicken pox rule.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Parents and grandparents have may visit 24 hours a day, except at shift change and on Tuesday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Visiting hours for siblings are from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day while the mother is a patient in the hospital; once the mother is discharged, siblings may visit only on Saturdays and Sundays. Other visitors must be accompanied by a parent, and must be 16 years of age or older.