As mentioned by KVOE News this week, Newman Regional Health is restricting its patient visitation with the recent spike in coronavirus cases still underway.
The long and short of it: visits will only be allowed in a handful of circumstances:
*Childbirth will have one designated person during labor and delivery as well as the duration of the mother’s hospital stay.
*Surgical patients have one designated person who must remain in the waiting room. That person cannot enter the Same Day Surgery Unit.
*Critical care patients transferring to another facility can have up to two designated people.
*Patients can have one person to pick them up at Entrance F, or the emergency department entrance.
*Pediatric patients can have up to two designated people for the length of their stay.
*Patients experiencing end-of-life situations can have up to two designated people.
Visitors will be chosen by the patient, patient’s decision maker if needed or hospital staff if a decision maker is not available. Staffers will also escort visitors to the patient and out of the hospital after they visit. Visitors will not be allowed by confirmed, probable or symptomatic patients except for end-of-life situations and the visitors be alone wearing masks under those circumstances.
Visitors under age 18 will not be allowed.
More information is online at www.newmanrh.org.
