- Visitation privileges consistent with the patient preference and subject to the hospital’s Justified Clinical Restrictions.
- Each patient has the right to receive the visitors whom he/she designates and may designate a support person to exercise the patient’s visitation rights on his/ her behalf.
- All visitors designated by the patient (or support person where appropriate) shall enjoy visitation privileges that are no more restrictive than those that immediate family member would enjoy.
- The hospital may impose clinically necessary or reasonable restrictions or limitations on patient visitation when necessary to respect all other patient rights and to provide safe care to patients. A justified Clinical Restriction may include, but need not be limited to one or more of the following:
a court order limiting or restraining contact;
- behavior presenting a direct risk or threat to the patient, hospital staff, or others in the immediate environment;
- behavior disruptive of the functioning of the patient care unit;
- reasonable limitations on the number of visitors at any one time;
- patient’s risk of infection by the visitor;
- visitor’s risk of infection by the patient;
- extraordinary protections because of a pandemic or infectious disease outbreak;
- substance abuse treatment protocols requiring restricted visitation;
- patient’s need for privacy or rest;
- when the patient is undergoing clinical intervention or procedure and the treating health care professional believes it is in the patient’s best interest to limit visitation during the clinical intervention or procedure.