MERCER COUNTY — Mercer Health Community Hospital has updated its visitor police.
The following guidelines will be in affect beginning June 8:
- No visitors under age 18.
- Visitors must stay in the room with the patient. Waiting rooms will be unavailable for use.
- Limit one visitor for the duration of stay.
- Visitors will be required to wear a mask at all times.
- No visitors are allowed in the hospital from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. overnight, unless accompanying a maternity patient.
- Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 will not be allowed visitation at this time.
- ICU & Acute Care Units: One adult visitor allowed for the duration of stay.
- Pediatrics: Two adult visitors allowed for the duration of stay.
- Surgery: One adult visitor/support person allowed.
- Childbirth Center: (1) support person allowed for the duration of stay.
- Patient Facing End-of-Life: 1 visitor allowed. Clergy is also permitted after proper screening.
- Patients with significant disabilities: (1) support person.
All visitors will be subject to screening for symptoms and international travel or known exposure history. Visitors will be asked to leave the facility if they have had symptoms of the seasonal flu or COVID-19. These symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, fever, chills, loss of sense of smell/taste, headache, vomiting, sore throat, muscle aches or diarrhea in the past 48 hours or known exposures in the last 14 days.
If the visitor is a driver for an outpatient, they will be asked to wait in their car until the patient’s appointment is completed.
Visitors must wash their hands, or use hand sanitizer, before and after leaving rooms and hospital buildings.
Inpatient Visitors must enter on the West side of the hospital by using Entrance #3: West Entrance or Entrance #2: South Entrance, and will be stopped near the West Registration for screening.
The following entrances at the hospital remain closed to the public:
- Entrance #4: The Cedar Table Entrance
- Entrance #1: East Entrance
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