Visiting Hours and Guidelines
Updated November 10, 2009

Children's National Medical Center is taking additional precautions during this time of increased flu activity to ensure the safest environment for our patients and families.

If you are visiting our hospital, the following visitor guidelines are in effect for our inpatient units until further notice:

• Only parents, guardians, or designated caregivers may visit patients.
• No children are permitted to visit, except siblings who have documentation that they have been vaccinated against seasonal flu and H1N1 flu.
• No more than two parents, guardians, designated caregivers, or siblings may come into a patient’s room at any one time.
• All visitors must check in with the unit nurse before entering the patient’s room.
• If you have been sick with a fever along with a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, or muscle aches in the last 7 days, you may not come up to the unit.
• If you are sick and must come up to your child’s unit, you will be required to wear a  mask at all times. A nurse or doctor on your child’s unit will determine if you will be allowed to enter the patient’s room.

If you are bringing your child to any of our outpatient health centers or clinics, the following guidelines are in effect until further notice:

• No children other than the patient should be included in a patient consultation.
• No more than two adults are permitted along with the child in the consultation room.
• Those two adults can be parents, guardians, or designated family caregivers.
• If you have been sick with a fever along with a cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, or muscle aches in the last 7 days, you may not enter the consultation room. If you are sick and must accompany the child, you will be required to wear a mask at all times.
• We ask that for future visits you remember to include only the patient and one or two adult parents, guardians, or designated caregivers.

Thank you for helping us provide the safest environment for our patients, families, and employees.

If you are concerned about flu, please visit our flu resource center for the latest information on when to seek care.

Visitor Identification Badges

• Children’s requires that all parents/visitors display the hospital provided identification badge while visiting patients at Children’s.
• This badge can be obtained when you first sign in at the Welcome Desk (1 ^st floor Main Atrium).

• Children's is a latex free hospital. No latex products of any kind are allowed in the hospital.

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