Visitor Rights

It is the policy of RHSHC to have open visiting hours. The hospital will:

• Not restrict, limit, or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
• Ensure that all visitors enjoy full and equal visitation privileges consistent with patient preferences.
• Restrict visitors according to the patient’s wishes or the patient’s condition.
• Restrict visitors with the obvious presence of communicable disease. (Visitors must be free of communicable disease in order to ensure the safety of patients.)
• Restrict visitors due to communicable disease outbreaks, restricted visitation may be posted and enforced.
• Inform patients and/or support person of department-specific rules related to visitation to protect the rights and/or safety of others, e.g. Obstetrics.

Patients, or support persons where appropriate, will be informed of:

• His or her visitation rights, including any clinical restriction or limitation on such rights.
• The right, subject to his or her consent, to receive the visitors whom he or she designates, including, but not limited to, a spouse, a domestic partner (including a same sex domestic partner), another family member, or a friend, and his or her right to withdraw or deny such consent at any time.

If you have any questions about your rights and responsibilities while in the hospital, contact the nurse.