Memorial Hermann updates COVID policy, allows visitors for hospital patients
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Memorial Hermann has updated its COVID policy and is now accepting visitors at some of its facilities.
As of Thursday, the hospital system is allowing one adult visitor per patient per day; two adult visitors per pediatric patient per day; and one adult overnight visitor for labor and delivery and pediatric patients at all of its hospitals. The policy also applies to the systems TIRR Memorial Hermann and Katy Rehab locations.
The policy does not apply to the system s outpatient facilities.
Visitors are required to undergo a health screening, wear a mask and socially distance.
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by helicopter to hermann s memorial center to be evaluated before she s transferred to the rehabilitation facility. janet shamlian joins me live from tirr memorial hermann. janet, what are you hearing now? reporter: we re waiting for that helicopter to take off from hobby airport and land here at the texas medical center at hermann hospital. it s going to be landing on top of the hospital. gabrielle giffords will be taken inside to the intensive care unit. as we talked about previously, we don t know how long she s going to actually stay here in the hospital before entering the rehabilitation building behind me. but this does bring astronaut her astronaut husband, mark kelly, back to houston, and it supposedly he is going to resume his training, at least partially, at some point at the johnson space center, just south of here, tamron. you mentioned those ties. we saw an incredible scene, janet, when the congresswoman was being transported from the tucson hospital to the airport t
and the doctors and nurses there are among the best to treat penetrating head injuries like gabby has been dealing with. so, i want my wife to get the best possible care, and i m convinced that she can get that at memorial hermann, and it is also one of the closest top-ranked places to tucson, but what is really a critical factor in this decision is the fact that it is going to let me be there by her side as much as possible. every single day. and i don t know how long this whole process is going to take. but if i want to at some point, you know, address situation with our children who are teenagedin and at some point consider the possibility of going back to work, it makes more sense that
she is in memorial hermann in houston, texas. so, i m extremely hopeful that gabby is going to make a full recovery. i have told her that. she recognizes it. she is a strong person and a fighter, and a fighter like nobody else that i know. so i am extremely confident that she is going to be back here and back at work soon. i have been telling the hospital staff that they should expect her to walk through the halls and the icu within a couple of months. i m sure of that. so she will be back. one of the reasons she is going to be back is because of the excellent care she has received here from dr. peter rhee and michael lemole and the other trauma surgeons and the neurosurgeons and the optmology care, and all of the way up and down the chain here at umc, she