Bariatric Surgery Center at Highland Hospital

 

Understanding Bariatric Surgery

What To Bring (and not bring) For Your Hospital Stay

General Guidelines

• Storage in your room is limited, so please keep the items you bring to a minimum.
  
  
• We request that you not bring valuables with you to the hospital. However, if you must bring them and want them to be stored, ask your nurse to deposit them with our Cashier's Office for safekeeping. You may access those items any time the Cashier's Office is open. Please be advised that the hospital is not responsible for personal items or valuables kept in your room.
  
  
• Cellular phones are not permitted in patient care areas as they can interfere with heart monitors and other critical equipment.
  
  
• To protect the health of our patients, visitors and staff, smoking is not permitted in the Medical Center. If you smoke, please leave your smoking materials at home.
  
  
• Keep personal items like dentures, glasses, hearing aids in your bedside table. Do not leave them on your food tray! The hospital will not replace these items if they are lost.

Things You May Want To Bring

• A list of medications you are taking
• Your medical insurance information
• Glasses or contact lenses
• Hearing aid
• Dentures
• Slippers
• Important phone numbers
• Hair clips or rubber bands to control long hair
• Reading material, crossword puzzles
• A small amount of cash (under $25) for incidentals
• Clothing

We provide patients with hospital gowns. However, personal bedclothes may be worn with approval from the nursing staff.

There is limited space in the closets in patient rooms for storing street clothes. If possible, arrange for your family or a friend to bring them to you the day of your discharge.

Toiletries

All patients are furnished with basic toiletries. Talk to your nurse if specific or additional items are needed.

Appliances

For your safety and that of other patients and staff, please do not bring in electrical appliances from home, such as hair dryers, cassette or CD players, electric razors, TVs, computers or other video equipment. They do not have hospital-grade wiring and therefore do not meet New York State standards.