Cape Worry Valley Well being has modified its affected person visitiation occasions as COVID-19 admissions proceed to pattern upward.
Because the group’s optimistic take a look at charge and the well being system’s COVID-19 admissions proceed to pattern upward, Cape Worry Valley Well being is making the next modifications to the present visitation coverage. These modifications will go into impact on Monday, Jan. 3.
Visitation occasions are from midday to eight p.m. for many inpatients and from 4 to eight p.m. for inpatients who’ve examined optimistic for COVID-19. Non-COVID sufferers might have two guests between midday and eight p.m., however they might not depart and return. Care companions who keep in a single day with a affected person and depart the following morning is not going to be allowed to return till visiting hours reopen. COVID-positive inpatients might have two guests between 4 and eight p.m. for as much as 1 hour every, and their guests should put on an N95 respirator (offered by the hospital) always and will not eat or drink within the room. COVID-positive sufferers might not have in a single day guests.
Within the Emergency Division, one customer is allowed after the affected person has been positioned in a non-public therapy room and the customer might not come and go. If the affected person is admitted or boarded whereas ready on a mattress, their visitation hours are midday to eight p.m. and guests should nonetheless stay within the room. Guests who depart might be allowed to return on the subsequent visitation time. Visitation guidelines at Specific Care areas are the identical because the Emergency Division.
Sufferers who’re on the Finish of Life might have one customer a day exterior of the visitation occasions listed above. In sure circumstances, the nursing supervisor might permit for compassionate exceptions to this rule for Finish of Life sufferers. Non-COVID Finish of Life sufferers who’re actively passing are allowed as much as 4 guests, with two guests at a time. COVID sufferers at Finish of Life are allowed a one-time go to for 4 instant members of the family solely with a most time of 4 hours, if exterior of the traditional visiting hours.
Guests and sufferers in all Cape Worry Valley Well being amenities and clinics are required to correctly put on a masks offered by the well being system always. Masks should stay on always, even in sufferers’ rooms, or the customer might be requested to depart. Fabric masks and neck gaiters aren’t permitted. This masks coverage might be strictly enforced.
All guests might be screened with a quick verbal questionnaire and a temperature scan earlier than being allowed entry. Those that refuse to reply the questions or who’ve a temperature above 100.3 Fahrenheit might be denied entry.
The well being system nonetheless has some additional restrictions in sure components of the medical middle and different areas, as follows:
• Surgical procedure and procedural sufferers might be allowed one customer within the pre-op space, however two guests might wait within the surgical ready room if arriving with the affected person. Moreover, surgical procedure sufferers might have one customer within the Publish-Anesthesia Care Unit if they’re ready to be admitted to the hospital. As soon as a surgical procedure affected person or procedural affected person has been admitted, two guests can go together with the affected person to their room.
• Inpatients awaiting surgical procedure or a process might have the usual variety of guests throughout visiting hours. Moreover, one help particular person might stick with the affected person in a single day and stay till the affected person is taken to surgical procedure.
• Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital surgical sufferers might have one help particular person, who might wait within the foyer throughout the process.
• Labor and Supply sufferers are allowed one help particular person with the affected person who should be not less than 16 years outdated. No different guests are allowed. Assist individuals aren’t allowed to change with different folks, and so they can’t depart and return.
• Within the Household Centered Care Unit, there could also be one help particular person to spend the night time. The help particular person should be over the age of 16 and will not come and go. No different guests are allowed.
• Pediatrics and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit will permit dad and mom/authorized guardians (as much as two) to go to across the clock, and so they might come and go. Just one mother or father or authorized guardian might keep in a single day. One extra customer between hours of midday to eight p.m. is allowed per day apart from the dad and mom, however there could also be solely two folks on the bedside at a time. Nobody underneath the age of 12 might go to. Kids 12 years of age and older should be accompanied by an grownup 18 years of age or older.
• Within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, two banded dad and mom/authorized guardians are allowed to go to. They will go to at any time, and so they might come and go. There isn’t any house to permit for in a single day stays.
• Oncology and Oncology clinics will permit as much as two guests at a time, apart from the chemotherapy space, the place house constraints and immunocompromised sufferers don’t permit for visitation.
• Outpatient clinics and Fayetteville Ambulatory Surgical Middle will permit not more than two guests per affected person.
• Cape Worry Valley Behavioral Well being Care will permit sufferers one customer Mondays via Fridays, from 7 to 9 p.m. On the weekends, they might have two guests, one per time slot at 2 to five p.m. and seven to 9 p.m. As soon as guests depart the power, they won’t be permitted to return that very same day.
• Lengthy-Time period Acute Care (LTAC) sufferers at Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital are allowed two guests at a time from midday to eight p.m., however as a result of excessive vulnerability of that hospital’s affected person inhabitants, all guests should have the ability to present proof of vaccination.
Particular person hospitals within the Well being System might range from these tips resulting from house limitations. These revisions mirror stricter tips concerning visitation than our earlier coverage and could also be adjusted sooner or later.
