Visitation Policy
Patient Visitation Rights, Visiting Hours, and Rules
DEPT:Administration ADM-133, IC 961
To ensure PCMH respects the rights of patient to choose who may visit them when they are a patient of this hospital.
To ensure all visitors enjoy full and equal visitation privileges consistent with patient preferences.
Policy
PCMH shall inform each patient (or support person) of his or her visitation rights including restrictions or limitations on such rights. This information shall be given whenever possible prior to administering patient care.
Visitation rights include the patient's right, subject to his/her consent, to receive the visitors whom he/she designates. including, but not limited to, a spouse, a domestic partner (including same sex domestic partner), another family member, or a friend, as well as the right to or deny such consent at any time. This right allows an individual of the patient's choosing to be present with the patient for emotional support during the course of their hospital stay.
Visitors are not restricted, limited, or otherwise denied visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin. religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
Rules & Restrictions
Questions?
If you have any more questions about the services we render here at Pike County Memorial Hospital, please, don't hesitate to reach out.