Helpful Hints for Family Members and Visitors After Your Surgery

• Woman’s Hospital has visiting hours and security measures in order to give patients some needed quiet time to help with their recovery. Regular visiting hours on most units are 9:00 AM–9:00 PM.
• After-hours (10:00 PM–4:45 AM) entry to the hospital is available through Entrance 4 (the main admissions entrance). All other doorways, including the second floor bridge from the parking garage, will be closed during these hours. Entrance 2 (the Day Surgery entrance) opens at 4:45 AM.
• Please minimize talking, as a courtesy to patients.
• Use waiting areas to visit or make phone calls. Please try not to make calls on your cell phone when you are in a hallway.
• Designated waiting areas are provided for visitors while not in patient rooms. Waiting in hallways of patient care areas is not permitted due to safety and privacy concerns.
• Limit the number of people in the room to one or two.
• Do not bring food or coffee into the room because food smells can make the patient feel queasy.
• Promote rest by limiting light, noise, and touch. Please do not turn on the TV unless the patient wants it on. You may also turn off the ringer on the telephone.
• Do not bring infants and children to visit until a day or two after surgery.
• Healthy children 14 years and under (no fever, runny nose, cough, or recent exposure to contagious illness) may visit during regular visiting hours.
• Children may not be left in the patient’s room without another adult present.
• Children may not spend the night in the hospital room.
• To call an inpatient’s room from outside the hospital, dial 231-5 + the room number.
  

Visiting Our Campus

• Woman’s Hospital is a smoke-free facility.
• Smoking and drinking alcohol are not allowed anywhere on the hospital’s campus.
• No firearms or other weapons are allowed on the hospital campus at any time.
  

Visitors who refuse to adhere to hospital policies and guidelines or who behave in a disruptive manner will be asked to leave the hospital’s premises and may not be allowed to return.