Visitor Policy Updates - No Visitation Allowed

Dear LifeBridge Health team members,

In order to respond to the rapidly changing COVID-19 pandemic, we are adapting our policies to protect our staff and patients by amending our visitor policies.

To proactively reduce the number of non-staff members on our campuses, we are now prohibiting any visitors from visiting the hospitals effective at 7 a.m. tomorrow, March 25.

The only exceptions to this policy are:

• One parent visitor per pediatric patient
• One significant other for labor and delivery patients
• One visitor for end-of-life care patients
• One visitor for heart attack and stroke patients
• One visitor for emergency surgery patients

All of the above visitor exceptions will be the sole DESIGNATED visitor for the patient and required to wear a surgical mask.

Emergency Department (ED) Visitation Policies:

• Visitors with patients for the ED will be screened.
• ED visitors will not be required to wear masks.
• ED patients will be required to wear surgical masks.

Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) for COVID-19:

• Anyone who is a Patient Under Investigation (PUI) will not be allowed visitors.

Additional Notes:

Again, plans are changing quickly, and the LifeBridge Health COVID-19 Command Center is communicating with the Command Centers at each hospital to share information.

All information that we've been sending out has been added to this webpage: lbhstaging22.lifebridgehealth.org/staffCOVID19. This allows the information to be available whether or not you are on the LifeBridge Health network.

We appreciate everyone's cooperation as we work together to respond to Coronavirus.