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Visitation Guidelines

Currently, VISITING HOURS are as follows for non-COVID-19 positive patients (±·´Ç³Ù±ð:Ìý separate guidelines apply for COVID-19 positive patients)

Arnot Ogden Medical Center

• Medical Surgical Units:  8:00 am – 8:00 pm
• ICU:  8:00 am – 8:00 pm
• Infusion Center:  No visitation.
• Labor and Delivery:  Limit two support persons at the bedside with any laboring/delivered mother at one time. Support persons may change throughout the labor and delivery process. 
• Obstetrics - 8:00 am – 8:00 pm. Siblings of any age are welcome when accompanied by an adult. 
• NICU: only parents, no sibling visitation
• Heart & Vascular Institute: Institute Invasive laboratories (Cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, interventional radiology) patients undergoing same-day procedures may be accompanied by a companion, who may remain with the patient through the initial intake process and then rejoin the patient for the discharge process.
• Emergency Department:  Bedside visitation will remain at the discretion of the provider and/or nurse caring for the patient, and there is no specific visitation time. Visitors will also be restricted to one at a time, unless a limited number is appropriate, such as during end-of-life situations.

St. Joseph's Hospital Campus

• SNF:  no restrictions
• ARU:  Sundays 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, one visitor during this time. You must call the ARU by Saturday evening to visit at (607) 733-6541
• BSU:  visitation times: every day 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm -7:30 pm. To be scheduled through the department by calling (607) 737-7002 or (607) 733-6541

Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital

• Medical Surgical Unit:  8:00 am – 8:00 pm
• In the Emergency Department, bedside visitation will remain at the discretion of the provider and/or nurse caring for the patient, and there is no specific visitation time. Visitors will also be restricted to one at a time, unless a limited number is appropriate, such as during end-of-life situations.

±·´Ç³Ù±ð:Ìý Support persons are permitted at the bedside outside the normal visitation hours for the following patients:

• Patients in labor and delivery
• Pediatric patients
• Patients for whom a support person has been determined to be essential to the care of the patient (medically necessary) including patients with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and patients with cognitive impairments including dementia
• Patients in imminent end-of-life situations, where death in anticipated within less than 24 hours

Visitation Guidelines for COVID-19 Positive Patients