Discuss your pain management plan with your nurse and OBGYN
provider prior to and following delivery.
How many visitors can I have in my labor and delivery?
Visitor policy as of 26 September 2022:
- Triage patients are permitted one (1) visitor at this time. Additional
support persons will be asked to wait in the waiting area until it is
determined whether or not you are in labor.
- Upon admission to LDRP, patients in active labor are allowed no more
than three (3) support persons.
o No additional support persons will be allowed during the first two
(2) hours immediate postpartum period, giving time for
o Children will be allowed in the postpartum period only. Children
are not allowed overnight or during active labor stages nor
delivery.
- Visitors are to remain in the patient’s room or in the designated family
waiting area. Visitors will not loiter in the halls.
- All visiting children, to include siblings, must have an adult over the age
18 present. Neither the patient nor the nursing staff will be responsible
for the supervision of visiting children.
- Visitors will be asked to leave if they show any signs of infection,
infectious diseases, or have had contact with someone who is ill, with
diseases including, but not limited to: COVID, Measles, Chicken Pox,
Mumps, Rubella, Whooping Cough, Infectious Hepatitis, and Influenza.
- All visitors on the LDRP are asked to respect the privacy of the patient
as well as the privacy of other patients on the unit.
- Any visitors that are disruptive to the patient or other patients on the
unit will be asked to leave immediately. Security will be called if
necessary.
- Patients admitted to the LDRP may request to have no visitors if they so
choose. A sign will be posted on the door asking visitors to report to the
nurse’s station prior to visiting the patient if she has expressed a desire
to limit or exclude all visitors.