Visitors

Effective JuLY 16, 2021

General Information for visitors

• Following Provincial Public Health Guidelines, all individuals entering the Hospital are required to participate in active COVID-19 screening, regardless of vaccination status. Please provide honest information so that proper precautions can be implemented to ensure safety of everyone.
• Please clean your hands with hand sanitizer or soap and water each time you enter or exit the patient’s room
• Before providing any food or medications, please discuss with the care team
• Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance is a scent free environment, please refrain from wearing any scented products, such as perfumes and body sprays, and bringing strongly scented flowers into the hospital
• To protect the privacy of patients, visitors and staff, the use of recording devices is not permitted without consent
• Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance is committed to providing a safe and respectful environment for patients, visitors and staff. We ask that all visitors be courteous, polite, and respectful of others. We have a zero-tolerance policy against violence, abusive and/or threatening behavior

All Visitors MUST:

• Pass the screening upon entry to the hospital
• Wear a hospital provided mask through their entire visit
• Only visit one inpatient while in the building
• Limit movement throughout the hospital with no access to common areas
• Be able to enter the building and get to the inpatient unit independently

General Visiting

• All inpatients will be permitted one (1) visitor daily, no limit on number of visitors throughout the patient stay.
• Visiting will be prescheduled with screening staff to ensure limited visitors in each patient room at a time, ward rooms will be limited to two (2) visitors at one time.
• Hospital staff may ask visitors to step out of the room while providing care to allow safe physical distancing
• Clergy visits will not replace a daily visitor and do not require scheduling or preapproval.
• Providers of personal care (ex. hairdressers) will be permitted and would not replace a daily visitor. These services should be pre booked to limit interfering with visitors.

Palliative Care

• Patients with a Palliative Performance Scale of 30% or less and nearing end of life may have 2 visitors in the Hospital building at one time, unlimited visitors throughout the day.

Obstetrical Patients

• Patients admitted to the Listowel Mother-Baby Unit will be permitted two (2) support person. 
• Post-partum patients will continue to have one (1) support person. 
• These support persons will continue to be permitted to come and go as needed.  

• No general visitors are permitted to the Mother-Baby Unit

Pediatric Patients

• Pediatric patients will be permitted the presence of two (2) parents/guardians