What you need to know

Visitors, what you need to know while visiting at Lauderdale Community Hospital Med Surg.

1. Your family or friend may be permitted one visitor per day.

2. It is the responsibility of the patient/family to manage who the visitor will be. Please relay amongst your friend and family these directions. Visitation pass is granted for that day to the first person arriving and requesting visitation. This is why it is important for you to work together as a family/friend to determine who is visiting.

3. To decrease hall traffic, visitors may not "come and go".

4. The Visitor will receive a pass that must be returned to the screener when leaving the building. This alerts the screener the patient has had their visitor for the day. It is the responsibility of the visitor to pick up and return the pass.

5. The pass will go into the hold folder when returned until the following day at 7 a.m.

6. At 7a.m. the following day the pass becomes available for a visitor. When the visitor leaves step 5 is repeated.

7. Visitation will be from the hours of 7 A. M. until 7 P. M.

8. Visitors must be screened for COVID daily by the ER screener, questions will reference cough, shortness of breath, fever, and contact with COVID within the past seven (7) days. This list is not all inclusive. Visitors will also have temperatures checked. No one with a temperature greater than 100 degrees (F) will be permitted to visit.

9. Masks are required at ALL times including patient rooms and bathrooms.

10. Visitors should sanitize your hands frequently.

11. Use good respiratory etiquette. (Cover your cough)

12. Practice social distancing. (Keep a distance of six foot from others.)

13. No visitors will be allowed in COVID isolation.

14. Visitors must stay in the patient room and may not wander hallways.

15. Meals are available for purchase 11:30-1:00. Plates may be purchased and taken home or back to the room you are visiting. The dining area is currently closed to the public.

16. Visitor access may be limited or restricted if the visitor fails to follow the provided rules, or if the nurse must limit visitors for safety reasons.

*Consideration for death and dying will be as follows as deemed necessary by MD: Patient may have up to two visitors per day, all other direction listed above apply.

Please take time to review our COVID education signs on Hand Hygiene, Respiratory Etiquette, Social Distancing, and Mask use.