Visitation Guidelines
Currently, VISITING HOURS are as follows for non-COVID-19 positive patients (Note: 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.
Note: 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
