Methodist Fremont Health Visiting Hours and Policy

Please follow the guidelines below when visiting to ensure the safety of all patients and guests.

Family and Visitor Presence

• As a patient, you have the right to choose who visits you, including but not limited to a spouse, family members, a domestic partner or a friend.
• You also have the right to define your “family” and how they will be involved in your care. Family may be anyone related to you by birth or marriage, friends, or neighbors.
• We ask that you designate a health partner upon admission.
• Your health partner and adult family members are always welcome. However, certain visitor restrictions may be implemented by hospital administration or your care team.
• Visitor privileges will not be denied on the basis of race, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Visiting Hours

• A patient's health partner and adult family members are welcome at your bedside 24 hours a day, according to patient preferences.
• Any request for an overnight stay of an adult family member must be coordinated and approved in advance with your care team.
• Daily quiet times: In order to provide a quiet and peaceful environment for patients to rest and heal, we ask visitors to adhere to our quiet time guidelines.
  • Afternoon: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
  • Evening: 9 p.m. – 5:30 a.m.
• Restricted access time: In order to provide a safe and secure environment, all entrances to the Medical Center (excluding the Emergency Department entrance) are locked at night to eliminate unauthorized public access. During this time, interior access is also limited.
  • Evening: 9 p.m. – 5:30 a.m.

Visitor Restrictions

• Family or visitor presence may be limited or restricted based on your care plan or during periods of seasonal or transmittable illness in the community.
• You may request that any visitor be escorted from your room at any time for any reason.
• An adult must accompany all children and dependent adults who visit the hospital and should check with the nurse before bringing them into your room. Health and age restrictions may apply.
• The hospital may not exclude a visitor unless that person’s presence disturbs you or another individual’s rights, privacy or safety, or the visit is not advised for medical or therapeutic reasons.

Visitor Responsibilities

• All family and visitors must be free of communicable diseases and comply with infection control regulations.
• All family and visitors must follow posted regulations and hospital policies.
• Family and visitors may not engage in loud, disruptive, threatening or violent behavior.

“No Information” Status

If you don’t want anyone to know you’re in the hospital, you may ask to be a “No Information” patient. Any inquiries about you would be met with the response, “We have no record of a patient by that name.”