Current Restrictions & Recommendations

Hospital Entrance Announcement & Information:
 
ENTRANCE OPERATION SCHEDULE:
 
Monday-Friday, 7am-5pm
Clinic Lobby Entrance- OPEN
NEW! Patient Entrance- just off of Fenner Road- OPEN
All who enter will be screened for signs and symptoms of COVID-19
 
Sunday-Saturday, 24/7
Emergency Department Patient Entrance- OPEN
All who enter will be screened for signs and symptoms of COVID-19
 
***ANYONE ENTERING THE FACILITY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTER 5PM WILL NEED TO USE THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT ENTRANCE.***

Plant Services entrance will remain only for employees.

VISITING HOURS: 9AM-8PM

General Restrictions & Recommendations:

  • Effective Monday, April 12, 2021, Highland District Hospital will be expanding visitor restrictions in the Obstetrics Department. The following will be instituted:  

    • One (1) support person is permitted to be with the patient during labor and during the subsequent hospital stay.   

    • Additionally, after delivery, two (2) visitors can visit daily between the hours of 11am-7pm, but are not permitted to return once they leave the unit. Those same two (2) visitors can return each day of the hospital stay to visit.

  • Patients on our med/surg floor and those having surgery will be allowed two (2) designated support persons/visitors per day. Those designated support persons/visitors may visit at the same time and are the only two permitted to visit within the same day.  

    • Visitation may be limited for patients in isolation precautions or that have infectious illness. Please call 937.393.6148 prior to visiting. All visitors of the med/surg floor will be required to check in at the central nurse station prior to visiting.
  • Patients in every other area of the hospital- including, but not limited to- outpatient services and those receiving any other type of testing, are permitted one (1) designated support person per patient. 

  • Designated support persons will be subject to all screening procedures currently in place.

    • Anyone who presents as symptomatic of COVID-19 will not be permitted as a support person.

    • All support persons must wear a mask while in the building, at all times.

  • While in the building, support persons must remain with their patient. They will not be permitted to move freely throughout the building.

  • Support persons must be 18 years and older.

    • No one under the age of 18 is permitted to be in the building unless they are a patient.

  • Support person access may be limited or expanded at the care team’s discretion. This includes, but is not limited to:

    • End of life circumstances

    • Individual cases where the well-being and safety of the patient is at risk

    • Circumstances where patients are required to be in a semi-private room

  • If you have any questions about our procedures please feel free to contact our Infection Control Officer at 937.840.6612. For general COVID-19 questions, please call the Ohio Department of Health hotline at 1-833-4-ASK-ODH.