Hospital Visitor Policy Checklist

Say goodbye to incomplete visitor policies. This checklist provides a variety of factors that can influence your hospital’s visitor policies. From patients recovering from surgery to patients not wanting a visitor overhearing their PHI, this document helps you think about many of the different aspects of visitors interacting with patients. Your patients will take longer to heal if they can’t rest properly. Patients may go to a different provider if they do not feel comfortable about how their information is being handled. Many patients want visitors to cheer them up, but you have to set boundaries in the best interest of the patients.

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Keep Your Staff Safe

When you don’t know who is entering your organization, you also don’t know what their intentions might be. Keep your employees safe by making sure you know who is in the hospital and what possessions they have with them.

Patients Need Their Rest

Your patients’ health comes first so make sure that they have ample time to rest without visitors. This can be done with different policies for patients, such as people recovering from surgery or children dealing with mental health illnesses.

Track Who Goes Where

If an unidentified person is in a part of the hospital building without staff knowledge, the situation can pose a hazard. A hazard for the unidentified individual, the staff, patients, and medical equipment that can be easily stolen.

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