Visiting hours

Visiting patients at Methodist Hospital

Visitors play an important role in patients’ recovery. They can act as a companion, advocate and helper.

It is important that your loved one and the other patient, if they share a double room, get the rest they need during their hospital stay.

To provide for that rest and a healing environment for patients, we recommend a maximum of two visitors at a time. Larger groups of visitors can sit in one of our family lounges, then rotate who visits with the patient.

We welcome you to visit any time, but we encourage you to visit between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. to ensure a quiet, healing time for our patients.

If you arrive after 9 p.m., or before 4:30 a.m., enter Methodist Hospital from the Emergency Center. Security will let you in and give you a visitor badge. If you are visiting in the evening and plan to stay after 9 p.m., please ask a nurse for a visitor badge. 

Please follow these guidelines during your visit.

• All visitors must wash their hands or use the alcohol hand rub in the patient’s room before visiting a patient.
• People with colds, sore throats or other contagious diseases should not visit.
• Visitors are asked to maintain a quiet environment.
• Please be considerate of both patients in semiprivate rooms.
• Healthy children may visit at the nurse’s discretion. They must be supervised by an adult at all times. Brothers and sisters of the newborn are the only children allowed in the Family Birth Center.
• If the patient’s door is closed or the curtain pulled, check at the nurse’s station before entering the room.
• Visitors may be asked to leave the room during exams and tests.
• Latex balloons are not allowed due to allergies and sensitivities. Mylar balloons are fine.
• Please check with the nurse before bringing any food or drink to patients.
• Please do not use the patient’s bathroom. A visitors’ bathroom is located in the hallway.

Thank you for working with the health care team to ensure your loved one feels the personal support he or she needs while hospitalized in a restful and healing environment.