General

11 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Visitation after 9 p.m. will be restricted to 1-2 individuals who may spend the night in the patient’s room. They must enter through the Emergency Department and be assigned a visitor name badge. Visitors in the inpatient areas must remain in the patient’s room or a designated waiting area, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Critical Care Unit (CCU)

The Critical Care Unit has open visitation except for the following times:

Visits are NOT allowed between 6:30 to 8 a.m.

Visits are NOT allowed between 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Visitors are limited to 2 persons at a time.    Exceptions may be made for end-of-life patients

Labor and Delivery

Visits are NOT allowed between 6:30 to 8 a.m.

Visits are NOT allowed between 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Visitors are limited to 3 persons at a time.

Nursery

 Because the nursery is a high security area, visitation of newborns will be limited to the mother’s room.                         

Visitation for babies in the Special Care Nursery  must be limited to parents or significant other of mother’s choice. Parents may be asked to leave briefly during procedures

Emergency Department

The Emergency Department is a secure environment with controlled access.  The department will strive to meet the needs of our patients at all times but visitation may be limited based on the activity of the department and the condition of the patient.      

  Visitors may be asked to step outside the patient’s room during procedures.  Waiting in the hallway is not allowed due to safety and confidentiality issues; therefore, visitors may wait in the lobby until the procedure is completed.

Nash Day Hospital

Family, friends, and / or significant others may accompany and visit patients before and after operative and invasive procedures that are performed at Nash Day Hospital.  

Visitors are not allowed in the operative, endoscopic, and post anesthesia recovery areas, Nash  Heart Center recovery area, and dialysis

Nash Health Care Mayo Surgery Pavilion Visitation Information

During daytime hours:

Surgery Pavilion visitors will be given a beeper by the information desk when waiting for their family member/significant other to have surgery.  When the surgeon completes the surgery, the information desk will be notified and the family member/significant other will meet the surgeon in the consult room.  The Pavilion waiting room is open Monday-Fridays except holidays, from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

After daytime hours:

 Between 5 and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, family members of a surgical patient in the OR (operating room) are brought to the ICU waiting area.  The OR is notified by the Surgery Pavilion front desk and/or PeriAnesthesia staff that they are in that area.  If the surgery is prolonged, the nurse will call that area to update them.  The surgeon will contact the family after the procedure in that area.

At Nash Health Care, we welcome visitors. Visits from caring family and friends can promote a patient’s recovery. Equally beneficial to the recovery process is a patient’s need for a quiet and restful atmosphere. Our visitation guidelines are designed to balance the value of visits with the need for rest in a manner that aids recovery. Your cooperation with these guidelines will benefit everyone.

• Please be considerate of other patients and visitors by refraining from loud talking and laughter when in rooms and hallways.
• Limit the number of visitors to two. Based on the patient’s clinical needs or the activity in the unit, the physician or nurse may limit the number of visitors and or the time spent in the patient’s room at one time.
• Limit visits to no more than 30 minutes.
• Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and may not enter isolation rooms.
• For the health and safety of children under the age of 16 years old, they must be accompanied by an adult other than the patient.
• Persons who have recently been exposed to communicable diseases or have a fever, cold or rash should not visit patients.
• Please make sure you wash your hands or use hand sanitizer prior to entering a patient’s room.
• As a courtesy, cell phones should be placed on vibrate and conversations should take place in areas that will not affect other patients or interfere with patient care.
• At no time may any pictures be taken of other patients, visitors, hospital equipment, or hospital staff without specific written permission.
• To respect confidentiality and the privacy of other patients, visitors should remain in their family member’s room.
• The hospital bed is reserved for the patient only.
• Read all signs posted on the patient’s door and follow instructions. If you have any questions, contact the patient’s nurse.