WARSAW â Limited visitation has returned at Wyoming County Community Hospital.
The visitations were restarted Feb. 23, loosening some of the restrictions enacted as precautions against COVID-19. Hospital officials said monitoring will be ongoing, as patient, staff and community health remains a priority.
âWe understand the importance of patient interaction with their loved ones and the role visitation plays in a patientsâ emotional wellbeing and therefore in their recovery,â hospital officials said in Facebook post. âWe encourage families to continue to consider communication through phone and video chat during other hours of the day.
âThe Patient and Family Services department can help set up the video call,â they said. âIf an in-person visit is desired, the following precautions remain in place to protect our community, patients, families, staff, and visitors, against the potential risk for acquiring and/or the spread of infectious disease
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The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone. (Ashley Ludwig/Patch)
NEW JERSEY - The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the COVID-19 pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone.
Months ago, hospitals across the state in adopting visitation guidelines from the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA). This standardized policy for hospital visitation provides color codes based on the level of virus risk (virus risk is determined by COVID-19 levels in the community, the level of COVID-19 patients at each hospital, staffing levels, and inventories of PPE supplies).