{"id":598,"date":"2023-06-29T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:22:50","slug":"visiting-a-hospital-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patient-visitors\/visiting-samaritan-locations\/visiting-a-hospital-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting a Samaritan Hospital FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you have a scheduled hospital visit coming up, or if you have a loved one in the hospital, it is good to plan ahead of time for what to bring, who and how many people you can bring, and where to call if you can’t reach your loved one. You may also be interested in accommodations for special needs or language translation, food options or hospital amenities. Please read below and also feel free to ask questions at the hospital’s information desk during daytime hours when you arrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Patients at Samaritan hospitals in Albany, Corvallis, Lebanon, Lincoln City and Newport, and at the inpatient mental health facility in Corvallis, can designate two people as visitors. Patients can also designate one or more support people. One support person may be with the patient at a time. This means there can generally be up to three people, up to two visitors and a support person, with a patient at a time. Clergy may visit at any time with patient\/family consent and does not count toward the visitor and support person limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patients at the end of life may have more visitors, with the number of visitors decided in consultation with the care team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional restrictions or special exceptions for mental health patients, emergency department patients, pediatric patients and obstetric patients are detailed in Samaritan\u2019s Visitor Policy. Please check with your care team for more information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors may be requested to temporarily leave a care area at the discretion of the care team for patient care or safety reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All visitors and support people must be free of contagious disease and abide by all other facility infection-prevention measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please review Samaritan\u2019s Visitor Policy<\/a> for additional details.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To help make your visit to the hospital as comfortable as possible, and to help everything run smoothly while you are here, here are some items to bring: <\/p>\n\n\n\n