Visiting Hours

We welcome patient visitors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.   However, to promote healing, some patients may have limited visitation during certain times.

For the health and safety of our patients and staff, please consider wearing a mask or rescheduling a visit if you:

1. Have you tested positive COVID-19 in the last 10 days?
2. Do you currently have any symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, sore throat, runny nose, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, headache body aches)?
3. Have you had close contact with someone with COVID-19 infection in the past 10 days?
4. Do you live or work in a facility or unit experiencing a COVID Outbreak?

Please remember to always practice good hand hygiene.

At 8 pm daily, the front/main entrance to the hospital closes. You may still exit the front entrance, but any newly arriving guests must enter through the SOMC emergency room, where a team member will assist you with wayfinding.

There are special guidelines for the following departments:

• The Emergency Department allows only 2 visitors per patient at a time.
• The Intensive Care Unit and the Heart Care Unit allow visitors only over the age of 12 years old for patient safety and infection prevention guidelines.
• The Maternity Department:
  • Immediately following the birth of your baby, the recovery period will begin. During this minimum 2-hour period, visitors with the mother are limited to the one support person of mother’s choosing that was present during birth.
  • Only one support person is permitted to stay overnight.