Central Peninsula Hospital is loosening its restrictions on visitors as COVID-19 counts decline on the central peninsula. As of this week, hospitalized patients who are negative for COVID-19 can have two adult visitors at a time, as long as those visitors are masked and pass a health screening.
Camille Sorensen, a spokesperson with the hospital, said the hospital had a very limited visitation policy until Monday.
For a while, nonessential visitors were not allowed. In late December, CPH opened visitation on a limited basis.
"But we held it there with the omicron surge," Sorensen said. "And now we’re opening it up a little more.”
Sorensen said there are no longer restrictions on visitors in end-of-life services for COVID-negative patients or in waiting areas. Patients in the maternity ward can see two visitors and a sibling. Day surgery and emergency department patients can see one care partner each. Most pediatric patients are allowed two parents or guardians.
Visitors are also now allowed at Heritage Place, the hospital-operated long-term care facility. Heritage Place has had to close completely to visitors several times during the pandemic due to outbreaks at the facility.
“All visitors have to be screened at the front door," Sorensen said. "And that has been in place since the beginning of the COVID restrictions. And we are still asking visitors to be masked at all times while on campus.”
You can look at the visitation policies in full at cpgh.org/corona.
