Patients & Visitors
Open Visitation Effective May 29, 2021 During Inpatient Visitor Hours 6 a.m. - 9 p.m.
The hospitalization rate of COVID-19 patients in our community has been below the 15% threshold for more than 100 days. This coupled with vaccine availability and our community’s slowed transmission of illness have encouraged us to open visitation at our facilities. Effective Saturday, May 29, DeTar Healthcare System will reinstate its open visitation policy.
We will continue to follow the guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control:
- Full vaccination for visitors is always preferred, when possible.
- Visitors should be screened and restricted from visiting, regardless of their vaccination status, if they have: current SARS-CoV-2 infection; symptoms of COVID-19; or prolonged close contact (within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period) with someone with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the prior 14 days or have otherwise met criteria for quarantine.
- Visitors, regardless of their vaccination status, should wear a well-fitting cloth mask, facemask, or respirator (N95 or a respirator approved under standards used in other countries that are similar to NIOSH-approved N95 filtering face piece respirators) for source control.
- Hand hygiene should be performed by the patient/resident and the visitors before and after contact.
- Facilities might need to limit the total number of visitors in the facility at one time in order to maintain recommended infection control precautions. Facilities might also need to limit the number of visitors per patient/resident at one time to maintain any required physical distancing.
- Per CDC guidelines, Isolation patients will be allowed 1 visitor who is acting as a care partner.
Guest entrances to both hospitals will be open weekdays according to the following schedule:
DeTar Hospital Navarro
Main Entrance 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Java Bean 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
MEDI Center 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Emergency All day
DeTar Hospital North
Main Entrance 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Day Surgery 5:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Emergency All day
Weekend access to the hospitals will continue to be limited to the emergency department and main entrances. The main entrances will be open at the same times as noted above.
Self screening stations are posted at all entry points, and everyone entering will stop at these stations to take their temperature before proceeding.
Thank you for helping us protect our patients, providers, employees and community.