Influenza Season Visitation Policy Now In Effect

Visit our Influenza Information Center to learn about flu prevention, symptoms and more.

To protect our patients, their family members and our health care providers, Crozer Health has implemented its seasonal inpatient visitation policy effective Jan. 5, 2018. This policy will be in effect for the duration of the flu season.

This policy requires that only friends and family 14 years or older visit patients in our hospitals.

Exceptions to this policy can only be made by the treating nurse or practitioner for end-of-life and other humanitarian situations.

Crozer Health also requests that all visitors follow these other precautions:

• Visitors who have symptoms of the flu, the cold or a GI virus should not visit patients in the hospital. Symptoms of these illnesses may include sniffles, sneezing, cough, aches, fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
• Visitors should wash their hands frequently with soap and warm water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Visitors should cover their mouths and noses with a tissue when they cough or sneeze. If they do not have a tissue, visitors are asked to cough or sneeze in their upper sleeves, not their hands.

In addition, visitors may be asked to wear a mask to prevent the spread of illness.

For additional information, visit crozerkeystone.org/Flu.