Patients & Visitors
Current Visitor Guidance
We understand the value of visitation for our patients and seek to balance their desire to see family and friends with their healing process.
Masks are required in all public and patient care areas.
Visitation is allowed at any time with the following exceptions:
Emergency Departments
- Visitors are allowed 24/7
- Two visitors per patient at a time
- Visiting times may be altered due to certain emergencies or a change in the condition of the patient or other patients
Pediatric Unit and Nursery
- Siblings may visit pediatric patients if the patient's condition allows.
- Only visitors over the age of 18 should say overnight with the patient. These visitors should be limited to parents, guardians, or other individuals designated by the patient's guardian.
Labor and Delivery Units
- One support person can visit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the support person, up to two visitors are allowed during visiting hours at a time determined by the patient.
Intensive Care Units
- Visitors may enter the unit at any time but are asked to check-in with the staff prior to entering the patient’s room to protect the privacy of the patient
- Visiting times may be altered due to an emergency or a change in the condition of the patient or other patients
Neonatal Intensive Care
- Parents and grandparents may visit any time. Siblings are requested to visit between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Staff monitor all incoming visitors and may use their clinical judgement to determine the appropriate number of visitors for each patient, taking into account all aspects of patient health and safety, including potential impacts that visitors may have on other patients in the hospital.
No visitors with a known infectious disease, who recently recovered from an infectious disease, or who recently had an infectious disease shall be admitted for visitation.
Please select a hospital below for information.
Northwest Health – La Porte
Northwest Health – Porter
Northwest Health – Starke