AllianceHealth Durant
Release
Dear Patients and Family Members:
Your safety and that of our providers is critical to ensure you receive quality medical care. Our hospital, physicians and employees have proactively prepared to respond and provide care related to the new coronavirus, COVID-19.
In the effort to keep our patients, visitors, and staff safe and well, AllianceHealth Durant and Madill have modified its visitor protocols. Only well, essential visitors such as immediate family, partner or significant other ages 18 and older may visit patients. If someone has traveled from a high-risk area for COVID-19, had contact with a person known to be infected with COVID-19, and cough, fever or difficulty breathing, they will not be allowed to visit unless seeking medical care themselves. The limit of visitors is two at a time. Patients in isolation will have additional visitor restrictions.
At AllianceHealth Durant visitation hours will be from 12pm – 6pm. Entrances will be reduced to Outpatient Admitting for visitors, pre-scheduled surgeries or outpatient appointments, and the ER entrance for emergencies. Signs are posted informing people with fever or respiratory symptoms that they will not be able to visit patients. All visitors, and patients pre-scheduled for surgeries or outpatient services will be asked health screening questions prior to entering the facility.
Entry into AllianceHealth Madill is limited to the Emergency Department entrance, with visitation hours from 12pm to 6pm. All visitors will be asked health screening questions prior to entering the facility.
Additionally, visitors are asked to practice infection prevention techniques:
- Sanitize hands when entering the hospital and when entering or exiting patient rooms.
- Cover coughs or sneezes with elbow or a tissue and dispose of used tissues in the trash.
- Sanitize hands after coughing or sneezing.
Staying in touch with family members is important and we encourage you to use phone, email, text, Skype and Facebook. Flowers, gifts, cards or other remembrances can be dropped off with staff located at entrances and we will deliver to the patient room.
This is an extraordinary time and we need our communities help to minimize exposure to infectious or communicable diseases.
We appreciate your understanding and compliance.
Sincerely,
Kevin Samrow
Chief Executive Officer
For general questions, updates, and information regarding COVID-19, please call the Oklahoma State Department of Health COVID-19 Hotline at (877) 215-8336.