Glen Cove Hospital visitation reopens with new guidelines

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Glen Cove Hospital has resumed visitation hours with guidelines to keep employees, patients and visitors safe.

  • Visitation is from 2 to 6 p.m.
  • Only one visitor at a time will be permitted at a patient’s bedside.
  • Total time for all visitors cannot exceed the four-hour maximum.
  • Visitors must undergo symptom and temperature checks upon entering the facility.
  • A hospital issued mask must be worn by the visitor at all times
  • Visitors must wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for isolation rooms as recommended by the Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • All visitors are required to sign-in at the front desk and check in at the nursing station on the unit. Badges must be returned to front desk upon departure. No exceptions.
  • No one under 18 years of age will be permitted to visit.
  • The visitor must wash their hands or use hand sanitizer upon arrival to the patient’s room and upon departure.
  • The visitor must avoid physical contact, such as hugging, with the patient.
  • Visitors are not to be permitted to wear personal gloves upon entry into the facility.
  • Visitors will not be permitted access to hospital pantries. Instead, they should ask staff for assistance.
  • No visitors will be permitted in the Emergency Department or Peri-Op Area.
  • Visitors will not be permitted to visit with patients who are COVID positive.
  • Visitors must remain in the patient’s room throughout the visit except when directed by hospital staff to leave for procedures.

Isolation precautions

Anyone who visits a patient with an isolation sign on the door should stop at the nursing station before entering the patient’s room. Isolation precautions create barriers that help prevent the spread of germs in the hospital and are needed to protect the visitor and the patient they are visiting. The precautions are also needed to protect other patients in the hospital.

When a patient is in isolation visitors may need to wear PPE (gloves, gown, mask). They cannot touch the patient and may not be allowed into a patient’s room at all. Visitors who are ill will not be permitted to enter the hospital.

Glen Cove Hospital encourages visitors to remain closely connected to their loved ones through virtual visual means such as Skype or FaceTime.