The Lehigh Valley Health Network is re-implementing its “no visitation, no access policy,” for all hospitals and outpatient facilities, effective Tuesday.
The change comes to protect patients from exposure to COVID-19 during a recent uptick in cases, according to a news release.
The policy was first implemented in the spring during the early weeks of the pandemic and later eased as cases began to decline. It takes effect 7 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, the news release says.
Virtual visits will be available. However, no in-person visitors are permitted except under these circumstances:
- Visitation of a gravely ill patient in the ICU, including those with COVID-19
- Parent visitation of a child in a pediatric ICU or neonatal ICU
- One coach or partner per patient on labor and delivery unit
- One visitor at a time for patients in inpatient hospice unit
- One parent/guardian at a time for pediatric patients
- One visitor to accompany patients for hospital discharge
- One visitor for patients undergoing same-day surgeries and procedures
- One visitor per patient in the emergency department
- No child under age 12 is permitted to visit in the hospital.
- Reasonable accommodations for pediatric visits will be made, provided any sibling visitors age 12 or above are in good health.
- For all outpatient appointments, one visitor is permitted to accompany a patient for an outpatient appointment, procedure, same-day surgery or LVPG office visit.
- The person accompanying a patient must be in good health and is subject to a health screening, if necessary.
Lehigh Valley Health Network includes eight hospital campuses, three in Allentown, one in Bethlehem, one in East Stroudsburg, one in Hazleton and two in Pottsville, Pa.
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