Safety & Security

Smoking

Smoking is strictly prohibited throughout both DeTar hospitals. Visitors may smoke only in designated smoking areas. Please refrain from smoking close to any entrances to our facilities.

Fire Drills

For your protection, the hospital conducts fire and disaster drills regularly. If a drill occurs you will hear loud bells and the doors in the hallways will automatically close. If this occurs while you are here, please remain in your room and do not become alarmed.

Oxygen

Special regulations are in effect in areas where patients are receiving oxygen. Electrically operated equipment and aerosol products are not permitted in these areas. Absolutely no smoking is permitted in any room where oxygen is in use or on standby.

Medications

All medications you take while in the hospital are prescribed by your doctor, dispensed by the hospital pharmacy and administered by a nurse. Patients are not permitted to administer their own drugs or keep personal medications at their bedsides unless it has been approved by the patient's physician.

Wheelchairs
Wheelchairs are available on all nursing units, but getting in and out of them without assistance may be hazardous. Please ask for help from a member of the hospital staff.

Valuable or Lost Items

Patients are asked not to bring items of value to the hospital. If you do bring a valuable item, it should be deposited in the safe in the Business Office. You will be given a written receipt for all items, which must be presented when you withdraw them. The hospital does not accept responsibility for items of value unless they are deposited in the safe. If you lose something, please notify your nurse immediately and we will make every effort to help you find it. Unclaimed articles are turned in to the Lost and Found at DeTar Hospital Navarro at 788-6313 and at DeTar Hospital North at 788-2670.