Visitor Information
Visitors play an important role in your recovery. We encourage our patients to see family members and friends in moderate numbers and for brief periods of time. We have certain visiting hours and regulations concerning visitors, which vary depending upon the type of hospital care you are receiving.
Hospital Visitation Policy
Visitors are welcome and encouraged at the Santa Rosa Medical Center Hospital. Your family and friends can play a key role in helping you recover and supporting you when you leave the hospital. Each patient room has a family zone designed for the comfort of your visitors, including a bed for overnight stays.
Family includes any person not legally related to the patient, spouses, domestic partners, both different-sex and same-sex significant others. Family also includes a minor patient’s parents, regardless of gender of either parent. Parenthood includes: legal parents, foster parents, same-sex parents, step-parents, and other persons acting as caretakers.
Visitors include any person of the patient’s choosing, if the patient has decision-making capacity, regardless of sex, economic status, educational background, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender identity or marital status.
The Healing Power of a Restful Environment
Our goal is to provide a restful healing environment for all of our patients and families during their hospital stay. To ensure our goal is met we need your help.
We Welcome Families and Friends and Need Your Help to:
- Maintain a restful atmosphere and low toned voices.
- Assist in keeping television volumes low so cannot be heard outside of room. If the volume must be louder to hear, please ask your nurse for headphones.
- Use cell phones in a room with a closed door; not in hallways or public areas.
- Please keep children in your direct sight at all times.
- If a “Do Not Disturb” sign is on the door, please check with nurse prior to entering.
When Sharing a Semi-Private Room:
- Use headphones when listening to the television.
- Maintain low toned voices
- If you need help creating a restful environment please ask your nurse for assistance.
Research Shows a Restful Environment Promotes Healing:
- Reduces stress and anxiety.
- Strengthens immune system for faster healing.
- Relaxes the body and decreases muscle tension which may decrease pain.
- Lowers blood pressure, heart rate and respiration rate.
- Helps mood, concentration and patience.
While we need many of the medical devices to alarm at times, there may be other sources of noise that we can reduce. Please let us know how we can support you and your family.
We support restful environments all day and provide sleep aides for special quiet time between 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
