Exceptions include ONE consistent visitor for:
- labouring mothers.
- paediatrics and Level 2 Nursery.
- patients who are imminently dying; this has been updated to include patients who are imminently dying and may be in the intensive care unit (ICU).
- patients undergoing life-threatening surgery. Those undergoing surgery for other reasons such as fractures, will not be permitted a visitor.
- emergency department only for those exceptions noted above: paediatrics, patients who are imminently dying or those who will undergo a life-threatening surgery.
Visitors will continue to be actively screened into the hospital. All visitors must be over the age of 18, designated by a patient in one of the units named above, must be non-symptomatic and are required to check in at the main entrance at the Chatham Site and Emergency Department (ED) at the Wallaceburg Site where they will undergo screening.