Visiting Hours
As a visitor, you can help your loved one and play an important role in the patient’s healthcare experience and recovery. Visitors have a chance to become a vital part of our Harrington healthcare team and help bring TLC to your family member or friend.
To minimize the stress that accompanies hospitalization, you can help reassure and encourage the patient as well as offer comfort and security during your visit. You can also offer to assist in activities the patient can’t accomplish while in the hospital—mowing the lawn, collecting the mail, etc.
We ask that you remember our top priority is the patient’s treatment, comfort, and safety.
- Do not visit if you are sick.
- Utilize the sanitizing foam throughout the hospital to wash your hands and protect the patient from infection.
- Be sensitive to the need for rest and quiet by keeping visits short.
- Help the patient smile and laugh, which is sometimes the best medicine.
Visiting hours are from 11:00 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, with the following exceptions:
- Pediatrics-Parents may visit anytime. One parent may sleep on a cot in the child’s room. Children 2 years old and older may visit during regular hours as long as they are not ill.
- Maternity-Labor and Delivery Phase: Support persons are allowed during this period at the discretion of the attending physician and/or nurse. After Delivery: Fathers, siblings, and grandparents are permitted to visit at any time. Other visitors must follow regular visiting hours.
- Intensive/Coronary Care-Visitors are allowed anytime, but short visits are requested. The ICCU nurse can help you plan a visit at a time that is best for the patient.
- 2 South-Visiting hours are 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekends.
If you have special circumstances that do not follow our visiting hours, tell a nurse or unit manager so we can work to meet your needs.