Visiting Hours

Please observe visiting hours:

• Regular visiting hours are from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM for most patients.
• In the Neonatal ICU, there is no visiting from 6:45 am to 7:15 am and from 6:45 PM to 7:15 PM
• In the Emergency Room, visits should not exceed two visitors per patient.
• In the ICU, visitors will be restricted to immediate family. The visiting hours are five (5) minutes per hour, 24 hours a day, at nursing staff discretion. No children with communicable diseases will be permitted to visit. Flowers can be a source of infection and a safety hazard in the unit. Please limit the size and number of arrangements.
• In OB, father of the baby may stay in postpartum or antepartum. Siblings must be accompanied by an adult. With labor and delivery, patients are allowed two visitors at a time, 24 hours a day.

Hospital Visiting Rules

For the welfare of our patients please observe the following visiting practices at VCMC:

• All visitors must check in at the Nurses' Station before visiting a patient.
• Two visitors per patient
• No visitors under the age of thirteen (13) with the exception of a brother or sister of a child who is a patient in Pediatrics or NICU. They may visit under these conditions:
  • One child at a time may visit, during regular visiting hours only, under adult supervision and with the consent of the the nurse in charge.
  • The child visitor must be in good health.
• Please be as quiet as possible in the corridors and while in the patient rooms.
  Smoking is not permitted.
• Please restrict visits to those visitors who are not ill or who may not transmit a communicable disease.
• In order to help patients get well quickly, we ask that you keep your visits short and the conversation pleasant and cheerful.