Please be advised that visitation restrictions have been lifted at Western Memorial Regional Hospital. Visitation restrictions had been put in place do to a persistent outbreak of stomach flu-like illness throughout the facility.
Please be advised that visitation restrictions have been lifted at Western Memorial Regional Hospital. Visitation restrictions had been put in place do to a persistent outbreak of stomach flu-like illness throughout the facility.
Western Health would like to thank the public for their co-operation during this temporary visitation ban and in helping prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Western Health would ask that people who have had vomiting and diarrhea or other flu like symptoms not visit any of Western Health’s facilities.
To prevent the spread of infection in any institution in the Western Health region, we ask the public to follow these simple steps:
- Wash/Sanitize your hands when you enter or leave any of Western Health's facilities.
- There may be times when you are asked to follow special precautions or instructions where you visit i.e. wearing gloves, gowns, masks or washing hands.
Western Health would like to remind the public that its visiting hours are now in effect. Visitors are reminded that they may only visit from 2 to 9 p.m. daily. Western Health is advising that patients can have one designated person, who may stay longer.
As well, there can be no more that two individuals visiting each patient at one time, including children, who must be supervised by an adult and are only allowed to visit certain areas. The visitor’s policy is different at certain units at Western Health facilities, like the Maternal Newborn and Women and Children’s Health Units, where family centered care philosophy encourages the primary support person to stay 24 hours a day.
Western Health recognizes the role visitors have in the health of a patient, but will be enforcing the visitor’s policy to ensure visitors do not impede the work a patient and key health professionals need to do.
For visiting hours on Intensive Care, Palliative Care, Mental Health, and Pediatric and Obstetric/Newborn/Labor and Delivery units, please check with the information desk or the charge nurses at the nursing station.
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For more information,
Please contact:
Heidi Staeben-Simmons
Director of Communications,
Western Health 709-637-5252