With COVID-19 cases continuing to rise across the region, the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital has announced temporary changes to their essential visitor policy.
In an effort to keep all patients, staff and physicians at the hospital as safe as possible, effective today, STEGH has further limited essential visits.
Limited exceptions to the policy include:
· Two caregivers for a patient who is palliative / actively dying;
· One caregiver in the Special Care Nursery in addition to “mom and baby”
· One caregiver for a woman in labour;
· One parent/guardian of an ill newborn, child or youth (18 or younger);
· One caregiver for a patient with dementia or cognitive impairment, a physical disability, language barrier, or visual impairment;
· One caregiver is permitted to accompany a patient in the Emergency Department if the patient meets one of the above listed criteria.
Essential visitors will be required to show proof of full vaccination, as well as keep their mask on while in hospital.
