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Natividad understands that having loved ones by your side can help with your healing and care. To promote healing, safety and ensure patient privacy, please be aware of the Intensive Care Unit Visitation Guidelines. These guidelines may be adjusted based on the patient’s needs or situation in the ICU.
- Visiting hours are from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. For patient privacy, visitors will be asked to leave the unit between 6:45 pm to 7:15 pm.
- There is a maximum of two (2) visitors at a time.
- Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to visit. Adolescent children 13 to 17, may visit but must be accompanied by an adult.
- Please do not visit if you have a fever, cough, or other signs and symptoms of illness.
- For security reasons, the ICU doors will remain locked. Please use the doorbell when you would like to visit your loved one.
- The nurse will check if the patient is ready for a visit.
- We ask that visitors remain inside the room and not stand in the ICU hallway.
- We ask all visitors wash or gel their hands before and after entering the patient’s room.
- Visitors may be asked to step out the ICU as needed for patient care or other unit situations.
- For safety and infection control reasons, balloons, fresh flowers, plants or food for visitors is not permitted inside the ICU. Please check with your nurse before bringing in outside food for the patient.
- Visitors may bring personal items or mementos (pictures, rosary, prayer cloth). All efforts will be done to safeguard your belongings, but staff cannot be responsible for damages or loss of anything that is left at the bedside.
- Please notify the nurse when bringing personal medical equipment and patient assistive devices such as glasses, dentures, or hearing aids to the hospital so that items can be entered into the medical record.
- Please help us provide a quiet, calm, restful environment to promote healing.
- Taking pictures or videos of patients or staff is not allowed.
- You may visit a patient via video instead of in person. Please ask our staff for help arranging a video visit with a patient. The ICU has a designated device that we can use for virtual visitation. Please ask for assistance.
- If you are visiting a patient who is in insolation, the nurse will explain the appropriate isolation procedures.
- We limit two contact persons per patient for updates or patient information. These names will be listed in the medical record and will be contacted in case of emergency or if patient condition changes.
- Trauma rounds take place Monday through Friday at 11:00 am. Family members or support persons are welcome to participate during rounds.
