North Carolina hospitals enact new visitation limitations

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 16, a number of North Carolina well being programs will implement new visitation insurance policies in an effort to restrict the unfold of respiratory viruses.

“Out of concern for the well being and wellbeing of the neighborhood, and as a result of widespread prevalence of respiratory viruses, equivalent to RSV and flu amongst younger kids, a number of North Carolina well being programs ask that kids 12 and beneath not go to sufferers who’re hospitalized,” based on a information launch.

The coverage will go into impact at 7 a.m. and applies to all hospitals included within the following North Carolina well being programs:

• Atrium Well being
• Atrium Well being Wake Forest Baptist
• CaroMont Well being
• Cone Well being
• Novant Well being
• Randolph Well being

Masks are nonetheless required for guests.  

Anybody who’s 13 years of age or older and is experiencing flu-like signs, together with runny nostril, sore throat, fever or cough, shouldn’t go to sufferers being handled in space hospitals. Officers say, nevertheless, individuals in search of therapy at hospitals should not topic to the restriction.

“Youngsters could also be permitted to go to hospitalized sufferers beneath particular circumstances, equivalent to visiting a dying member of the family. In these cases, mother and father ought to work with their care group to make preparations,” the discharge stated.

Well being care officers proceed to induce all North Carolinians eligible for flu and COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters to get their shot. Many residents within the state nonetheless have not acquired a flu vaccine, and a lot of those that have not gotten the shot, do not intend to get it, based on a latest survey performed by the Excessive Level College Survey Analysis Middle. 

For extra data on visitation restrictions and insurance policies at varied well being care programs all through North Carolina, click on the next hyperlinks beneath: