For Patients and Visitors

Visiting Hours

General Visitation Policy

• Parents are welcome to visit 24 hours a day.
• Visiting hours for all other visitors are from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
• Your child may have up to four visitors at a time, including family members. Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by a parent.
• All visitors under the age of 16 must be with an adult. Children under the age of 12 are allowed on the unit with the permission of the charge nurse.
• One parent or adult relative over the age of 18 years may stay overnight in the patient room. The Ronald McDonald House is also available for overnight accommodations; please discuss with your nurse or social worker any special arrangements your family may need.
• There may be a time when visiting hours are modified to meet your child's care needs.
• Your family and friends may visit with your child in his or her room or the Ronald McDonald room (located in the main hallway of the 4th floor). Please check with your nurse before leaving the unit.
• Please be considerate of the rights of all of our patients and hospital staff by treating them with courtesy and respect. Also, please assist with the control of noise and the number of visitors in order to keep the unit comfortable for all.
• Even then we do our best to accommodate requests for private rooms. Children who are in need of "isolation" are given preference to single rooms. We strive for the best care for all of our children.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Visitation Policy

• Parents or guardians may visit 24 hours a day.

• Siblings may visit during normal hospital visiting hours (11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.), providing:
  • We have a completed health screening form for each on file (ask your child's nurse for a form); and
  • They are supervised by a parent at all times.

• Your family's clergy may visit at any time.

• Two visitors are allowed at one time in a child's room.

• Visitors should wait in the PICU/PCICU family lounge.

• All visitors must check with the secretary at the desk before entering the unit.

• Please wash your hands each time you enter and leave the unit to minimize the chance of spreading an infection.

• Parent and grandparent visitation is permitted 24 hours/day except
  • During the nursing change of shift
    (6:45 a.m.-7:45 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m.)
  • During morning medical rounds on other patients who share their infant’s pod (parents may stay during discussion of their baby)
  • You will be asked to leave during these times.
• Brothers and sisters over 3 years of age may visit under the established sibling visitation guidelines. Sibling visitation is permitted from the hours of 12:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m., 7 days a week. Brothers and sisters 12 years of age and older may also visit from 7:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Sibling visits are a maximum of 30 minutes.
  
  
• Two extended support people over 14 years of age can visit each day. Grandparents are not included in this number. The visitation hours for extended support people are 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
  • Parents must accompany these extended support people on NICU visits.
• No more than 2 adults at the bedside at any time.
  
  
• In order to protect and respect the privacy of all our patients, please remain at your infant’s bedside when visiting. Although you will meet other families during your NICU stay, visiting with these families will need to take place outside of the patient care pods (i.e. NICU waiting room).
  
  
• Visitors who have colds, coughs, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, or other infections may not visit.
  
  
• All visitors must perform a 3-minute scrub before entering the NICU.
  
  
• All visitors including parents and grandparents must sign in with the secretary before proceeding into the unit.
  
  
• At all times the medical and nursing staff reserve the right to ask visitors to leave if the need arises.