At Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital our administration, nursing staff and physicians are committed to the best in patient care practices. Delivering quality care, while maintaining a patient-family centered atmosphere, is essential to our success. Our patient’s families play an important role in the healing process and often times assist in identifying and responding to patient concerns. In December of 2009, SVMH implemented additional restriction to our visitation policy in conjunction with H1N1 guidelines. After careful review and consideration, and in response to the H1N1 required safety precautions no longer being necessary, we have chosen to modify our current visitation policy.
Effective immediately, the General Visitation Policy visiting hours will be from 9am to 8pm. Some nursing units will continue to have unique visiting guideline, please review those times and restrictions in policy tech. In addition to the change in visiting hours, we will be removing the age restrictions currently in place. Children under the age of 14 may now visit when accompanied by an adult. We will continue to limit and enforce two visitors per patient at a time, while encouraging all visits to be short in duration.
Our newly adopted visitation policy is consistent with comparable hospitals current policies, all of which embrace and support patient centered care practices.