Brownwood News – (contributed by BRMC) We’re asking for the community’s help in maintaining the safety of patients, visitors, and our healthcare team members. When in the hospital for treatment, the best interest of our patients is to minimize unnecessary exposure to infectious or communicable diseases.
If you have traveled from a high-risk area for COVID-19, have had contact with a person known to be infected with COVID-19, have cough, fever or difficulty breathing, patients should tell staff immediately and visitors should delay your visit unless seeking medical care.
We are intently focused on preparedness and maintaining a safe environment for our patients, employees and physicians.
As part of this preparedness, restrictions have been implemented:
- Visitor and patient access in to the hospital will be allowed through the Main (North) Entrance and the Emergency Room Walk-in Entrance Only.
- Main Entrance access will be from 7:00 am. to 5:00 p.m.
- Emergency Patients may enter via the Emergency Walk-in Entrance
- All visitors and patients must meet the screening criteria before entering.
- Each visitor must log in and log out of the same entrance/exit.
- All visitors must be age 18 and over
- If a visitor leaves the hospital, no visitor may re-enter after 5:00 pm.
- Only 2 visitors per patient at any time of day; however, ICU and ER will only be allowed one visitor at a time. (Exceptions to visitor count will be made on a case by case basis)
Patients in isolation will have additional visitor restrictions.
If you would like to drop off a card, gift, or message of encouragement, we are happy to deliver those to patients. You may also call a patient’s room or visit patients using Face time or another video communication app.
We appreciate the community’s understanding and compliance.
