Visitation Guidelines

Currently, VISITING HOURS are as follows for non-COVID-19 positive patients (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 – Noon and 4:00 pm – 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 delvery process. 
• Obstetrics - Open visitation from 8 am to 8 pm. Siblings of any age are welcome when accompanied by an adult. 
• NICU: only parents, no sibling visitation
• Heart & Vascular Institute: Institue Invasive laboratories (Cardia catheterization, electrophysiology, interventional radiology) patients undergoing same day procedures may be accompanied by a compaion, 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 1pm-2pm 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.

Support persons are permitted at the bedside for the following patients (outside the normal visitation hours):

• 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