Your child’s safety is very important. Following these guidelines will help us provide a safe environment.

All visitors are expected to follow safety practices such as proper handwashing, infection prevention, keeping side rails up, and wearing a mask if they have respiratory infection for the protection of our patients. Please limit the volume of voices, and other types of noises to maintain a healing environment.

Parents/Guardians

Please make your visitors aware when certain care practices   are scheduled to occur. These may include medical procedures, rehab/therapy, discharge teaching, or in-house school activities. Visitors may wait in parent lounges and waiting rooms during these types of activities.

Siblings/Family

Please ask your nurse to make arrangements. Child Life Specialists are available to help prepare siblings before the visit.

• G200/1200 & Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit 
Children under the age of 12 are welcome when accompanied by an adult at all times. Visiting hours are until 8:00 p.m.

• NICU/Pediatric Intermediate Care
Siblings over 3 years of age accompanied by an adult may visit for one half-hour on Saturday and Sunday. In NICU, sibling visiting may be restricted in certain seasons to protect the infants from infection. Due to the open room design in the NICU, all family and visitors will be asked to step out during nurses change of shift report times to protect the privacy of each family.

• Pediatric Intensive Care
Pre-approval from the child’s physician is required for siblings under 12 years of age to visit at the bedside. 

Visitors over 12 years of age

• G200/1200 & Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit
Visitors are welcome until 8:00 p.m.

• NICU/Pediatric Intensive Care
Any visitor accompanied by a parent may visit at the bedside.

Visitors/Family Friends  

Upon admission, parents are asked to provide a list of approved visitors. This information is available for staff should a parent not be present when a visitor arrives.

Other Visitors

• Celebrities
International, national and local sports & entertainment celebrities often visit the hospital to meet and greet our patients. If there is a celebrity visitor, they will be accompanied by a hospital employee to the units. (If you do not wish to meet the celebrity, please let your nurse know.) (Always look for an I.D. before someone enters your child’s room.)

• Groups
Occasionally groups from other hospitals, companies   or service organizations will visit. They may be donors or groups learning the way we do things.  Like celebrities, they will be escorted by a hospital employee with a hospital I.D. Groups will not visit an individual room but you may see them in the hallways of your unit.

• Donors/Board Members
Several times a year, new board members and donors will visit. This is an opportunity for them to see how donated dollars are spent and to observe the hospital at work. Like groups, these people will be accompanied by a hospital employee with an I.D. They will not enter individual rooms, but you may see them in the hallways of the unit.

If you ever see a person you do not know enter your child’s room, tell your nurse immediately.

Note: Anyone who has symptoms of a contagious illness (such as fever, cough, cold, vomiting, diarrhea, cold sore, or rash) should not visit patients. Parents who have a contagious illness should consult with their nurse or doctor before visiting.