Visitors

Forrest City Medical Center encourages visitation of patients’ family and friends to provide emotional support to the patient and aid in the healing process while simultaneously ensuring safety and security of patients and employees.

Visitation

• Open visitation from 6:00 AM until 9:00 PM
• FCMC encourages ONE visitor to stay overnight unless additional visitors are needed to ensure patient safety
• Family/friends are encouraged to actively participate in bedside shift report at approximately at 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM
• Visitors must remain in the patient room unless requested otherwise by staff for the privacy of other patients
• Minors (under the age of 18 years old) must be accompanied by an adult (not the patient) at all times
• All isolation precautions must be adhered to at the discretion of staff for visitors and patients safety
• Visitors are to be free from obvious signs and/or symptoms of infectious disease
• Staff have the discretion to ask any visitor to leave of the visitor’s presence disrupts patient care
• If the hospital incident command is opened (i.e. security event, mass casualty, pandemic) visitation rules may be altered
• Pictures, video, and/or audio recordings are prohibited for the privacy and dignity of the patients and staff

Exceptions

Emergency Department/ICU

• Visitation for patients who are expressing suicidal and/or homicidal ideation or having a mental health emergency will be reviewed on an individual basis to ensure patient and visitor safety
• If visitation is allowed, visitors will not be allowed to bring in any personal items, including but not limited to bags, purses, and will not be allowed to bring food and/or drink (liquids) into the patient room