Safety Precautions
While visiting any of SRMC’s facilities, please be assured that your safety is important to us.
Safety Precautions
While visiting any of SRMC’s facilities, please be assured that your safety is important to us.
Patient Safety
If you come across any potential safety concerns, we kindly request that you inform any member of our team as soon as possible.
For your safety and for the safety of others around you, there are several steps you can take to help reduce and even stop the spread of viruses and infections. Covering coughs and sneezes and keeping hands clean can help prevent the spread of serious respiratory illnesses.
Germs can be easily spread from any of the following:
- Coughing, sneezing, or talking.
- Touching your face with unwashed hands after touching contaminated surfaces.
- Touching objects that may be frequently touched by other people.
To help stop the spread of germs:
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
- Throw used tissues in the trash.
- If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow, not your hands.
Remember, it is important to wash your hands after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. Washing your hands is one of the most effective ways to prevent yourself and your loved ones from getting sick, especially at key times when you are likely to get and spread germs.
- Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- If soap and water are not readily available, use alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol to clean hands.
To prevent the spread of respiratory disease, it is advisable to maintain a safe distance from people who are sick. If you are ill, we recommend that you minimize contact with others and consider staying home from work or school, whenever possible, to prevent the spread of germs.
Visiting Hours
Visiting hours at the main facility are 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. every day
- Acute Care: No more than two visitors at a time unless authorized by a provider
- End-of-Life Care: Please use good judgment. Nurses and providers may visit with close friends and family to determine what is best based on the patient’s condition.
- OB: One support person may be present throughout labor. Additional support people may be allowed per MD discretion.
- ER: Anyone 18+ may have one visitor in the ER patient room at a time. Patients under 18 or other circumstances will be determined by the provider.
The SRMC Pole Creek Estates Pole Creek Estates Long-Term Care and the SRMC Sloan Estates Assisted Living facilities have specific guidelines. For visitor information, call Pole Creek Estates at 308-254-7303 or Sloan Estates at 308-254-4801.
