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ICU Open Visitation Guidelines for Family and Visitors

St. Joseph Hospital—PeaceHealth
Bellingham, Washington, USA

These guidelines help communicate to families, visitors, and patients the need for maintaining safe and therapeutic open visitation in the intensive care unit (ICU). Posters with these guidelines are displayed in all waiting rooms and paper copies are handed out to families and visitors as needed.


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St. Joseph Hospital—PeaceHealth has had open visitation in their ICU for more than eight years.


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