Your Child's Hospital Stay

COVID-19 Service Changes

Visiting Restrictions

At the hospital, two visitors can stay with a child in their room and care areas.

Your child’s care team can answer any questions about our current visitor restrictions. See our visitor exceptions and restrictions.

Registration & Admission Information

If your child's hospital stay was planned, the doctor's office will give you information about where to go to be admitted.

The information we ask for is required by law or we need it for your child's care. All information is kept confidential, unless we are required or allowed by law to release it.

You’ll be asked to sign admission and consent forms.

If you want to restrict what information is shared with others about your child's medical condition, please let us know and we'll work to accommodate your request.

Visit a Patient Virtually

Using a personal phone or tablet, family and friends can connect with a patient through video, voice chat, or text.

To do so:

  • Pick an app you and the patient feel comfortable using. You and the patient must use the same one (like Skype, for instance).
  • Patient must connect to the free hospital Wi-Fi.
  • Agree on a time to meet and connect over the web.

Hospital team members can help patients connect to Wi-FI and set up a virtual visit. There are also a very limited number of devices available for patients who may not have one.

When Your Child Needs Care

Being hospitalized can be scary for a child, siblings and even parents and caregivers. 

Children adjust better when they’re given age-appropriate information and when they have family with them.

We encourage you to be with your child as much as possible, ask lots of questions and find support from family or friends.

Ask your child's nurse or social worker for help or for more tips and information about how to prepare for your child's hospitalization.