{"id":204748,"date":"2020-07-29T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=204748"},"modified":"2020-07-29T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:47:11","slug":"update-chi-mercy-hospital-visitation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=204748","title":{"rendered":"Update: CHI Mercy Hospital visitation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Valley City\u00a0 (CHI) On Wednesday July 29, 2020 CHI Mercy Hospital issued a statement regarding the visitation policy:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand how much it means to patients to have their loved ones with them during their hospitalization and outpatient visits. We at CHI Mercy Health want to keep the community informed of what our current visitation policies are.<\/p>\n

All patients, visitors and support persons presenting to CHI Mercy Health will enter at Main Entrance Door #1 and will be screened at the front desk prior to entering facility. Patients, visitors and support persons will be required to wear a mask or face covering while in to the hospital. All visitors will check in and check out at the front desk and must go directly to hospital department and be in a patient\u2019s room. Visitors may stay as long as they like but if they choose to leave the building they will not be allowed back in. This is designed to keep the numbers of people actually entering the hospital to a minimum.<\/p>\n

Social distancing, masking, and hand sanitizing requirements will be maintained in all hospital departments. Any visitor who cannot manage the guidelines will be asked to leave the facility and if accompanying a patient, be asked to wait in his\/her vehicle. CHI Mercy Health respects the rights of all community members; because of the services we provide, our first duty is to the safety and care of patients and staff. We will actively defend this duty and are confident that everyone visiting our facility will understand and do the same. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding!<\/p>\n

CHI Mercy Health\u2019s visitation restrictions effective July 27, 2020 are as follows:
\n\u00b7 Visitors are asked to stay home if they are experiencing any symptoms of illness.
\n\u00b7 All visitors are required to wear a face covering and will be screened at the front desk prior to entry.
\n\u00b7 No visitors under the age of 18 (exceptions may be made at the discretion of the care team).
\n\u00b7 All visitors will use the Main Entrance (Door #1) and will check in and check out at the front desk.
\n\u00b7 PCU patients may have one visitor per day. This includes Acute, Observation, and Swingbed patients.
\n\u00b7 Patient and visitor must remain masked during visitation.
\n\u00b7 An additional visitor will be allowed at the time of discharge.
\n\u00b7 Swingbed patients may have additional visitors outside (must maintain social distancing).
\n\u00b7 Emergency Department, Surgery, Pain, and Ambulatory Care patients may be accompanied by one healthy adult (must remain in patient\u2019s room).
\n\u00b7 Compassionate care visitation \u2013 limited to two visitors at a time in the facility.
\n\u00b7 Pediatric patients or adult patients requiring a care giver may have one support person with them at all times.
\n\u00b7 Delivery drivers must be masked.
\nPlease log onto CHI Mercy Health Website for COVID-19 updates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City\u00a0 (CHI) On Wednesday July 29, 2020 CHI Mercy Hospital issued a statement regarding the visitation policy: \u201cWe understand how much it means to patients to have their loved ones with them during their hospitalization and outpatient visits. We at CHI Mercy Health want to keep the community informed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204753,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204748\/revisions\/204753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}