Wesley will ease some of their restrictions put in place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic starting on Monday.

Patients will be allowed one visitor, one at a time from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.  However, measures like universal screening, the requirement of wearing masks, and temperature checks at all public entrances will continue.

Visitors will not be allowed to visit patients in medical isolation or be allowed to areas where Covid-19 patients are being treated.  The hospital says only patients with immediate medical needs will be allowed to enter at the emergency department and all other visitors must enter from the Hillside or visitor garage entrance.

In addition to one visitor per-patient during visiting hours, Wesley will continue to allow:

• One parent or guardian to spend the night with a pediatric or neonatal intensive care unit
  (NICU) patient
• One support person for women in labor and patients with disabilities or impairments, who can
  remain overnight
• One advocate for surgical patients

Exceptions to the visitor policy may be made on a case-by-case basis in end-of-life situations.

“We understand how difficult it has been for families to be unable to visit their loved ones while they have been hospitalized,” Wesley CEO Bill Voloch said. “That is why we have decided to allow one visitor per patient at this time. We will, of course, be maintaining our no-visitor policy for patients in medical isolation and our COVID-19 unit, as well as our emergency department.”

“We are taking a very deliberate approach to visitation, and plan to watch it closely,” Voloch said. “If, for any reason, we feel that it would be prudent to return to a no-visitors policy moving forward, we will do so. Our top priority is the safety of our patients, physicians, colleagues and community, and we take that responsibility very seriously.”