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Stanford Medicine strongly encourages visitors to be fully vaccinated. Visitors must not have any of the following symptoms:

• Fever or chills
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea

VISITOR INFORMATION

• Visiting hours: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm.聽For patients in a shared (semi-private) room, visiting hours and rules may be different.
• Stanford Medicine strongly encourages visitors to be fully vaccinated. Please do not enter to visit if you have any of the following symptoms listed above.
• Please be mindful of high-risk and immune-compromised patients. Visitors must wear appropriate protective attire as directed by signage and staff.
• Use hand sanitizer when you enter and leave the patient's room.

Clinical Settings

All visitors must:

• Visitors must self-monitor for symptoms and not to enter our health care facilities if they have symptoms that may be related to COVID-19, respiratory, or any other contagious infectious illness.
• Visitors must comply with all 糖心传媒 instructions, including personal protective equipment, hand hygiene and other infection prevention requirements.
• Visitors who do not comply with these requirements or exhibit other behavior that endangers the health or safety of patients or staff will be asked to leave and may have future visitation revoked.
• Some waiting areas are limited to 1 visitor and visitors must be 16 years or older.

Hospital (not the emergency department)

• Visitation may be delayed, altered, or refused based on the care needs of individual patients as deemed appropriate through agreement between the patient鈥檚 nurse and physician.
• Normally two (2) visitors per patient can be accommodated at one time.
• Inpatient daytime visiting hours are limited to 8:00am-8:00pm.
• Overnight visitors:
  • Inpatients in a private room may have one (1) overnight visitor with the approval of the patient and nursing staff.
  • Inpatients in a non-private room are permitted to have one (1) overnight visitor under specific circumstances as approved by the patient, patient鈥檚 roommate, and Department Manager.
• Isolation: All visitors of patients in protective precautions and respiratory isolation must check with the nursing staff prior to visiting. The nursing staff will instruct the visitor in proper isolation techniques.
• Children/minors may visit a patient if they are accompanied and supervised by an adult.
• For patients at end of life, (defined as imminent death of the patient, usually within 24-72 hours), up to two (2) visitors at a time are allowed to sit vigil. Each unit manager will determine total number of visitors in a day and duration of each visit.

Maternal Child Health

• Labor and Delivery:
  • During labor, two (2) support people are allowed.
  • One certified professional doula may attend 24/7 from admission until delivery in addition to support persons per above.
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU):
  • Once infant is stabilized, two (2) visitors are allowed.

Surgery and procedures

• Waiting Area:
  • All patients will be allowed one (1) healthy caregiver to accompany them to a designated waiting area prior to being brought into Pre-Op.
  • To manage space constraints, the visitor may be asked to wait off-site once the patient goes in for their procedure.
• Pre-Op:
  • Visitors are permitted after the pre-op nursing assessment phase is complete. If a patient meets the following criteria, a visitor may accompany the patient during the pre op nursing assessment phase:
    • One (1) healthy caregiver will be allowed to accompany
      • Patients who are minors under age 18
      • Patients with physical, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities and patients with cognitive impairments.
      • Obstetric patients delivering in an SHC OR may have their support person in the OR during the delivery.
      • Patients who require assistance during the pre-op nursing assessment, so the care team has accurate information to safely care for the patient
  • During the pre-op phone call, the patient will be assessed to determine if they meet the above criteria for having a caregiver accompany them into pre op during the initial nursing assessment.
• PACU:
  • Once a patient transitions to Level 2 care, one (1) healthy caregiver may be allowed in the PACU.

Lab, radiology, testing areas

• Patients coming to clinic visits may bring 1 caregiver with them who is 16+
• The caregiver may be asked to step outside if the area becomes too crowded.

Emergency Department

Once a patient is roomed:

• Up to two visitors will be permitted at the bedside.
• Patients in non-private rooms, the number of visitors may be limited to one.

We will notify you when it is appropriate to join your loved one. Any decisions regarding visitor allowances or restrictions not covered by this policy will be made by the charge nurse and the manager on-site or the manager on-call. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.