Providence Southwest Washington relaxes visitation policy after COVID-19 cases fall
Providence Southwest Washington is relaxing its visitation policy at its hospitals in Olympia and Centralia as COVID-19 cases decline, the health care organization announced.
The new policy took effect at 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 24.
In the past several weeks, Providence Southwest Washington has seen a decrease in COVID-19 patients at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia and Providence Centralia Hospital in Lewis County.
Cases previously peaked at more than 150 COVID-19 patients, but both hospitals were caring for about 50 COVID-19 patients as of Wednesday.
Some of the visitor policy changes:
▪ Expanded visitation for non-COVID-19 critical care, medical and surgical inpatients, and continuous observation patients, allowing two visitors between 10 a.m. to noon and 4-6 p.m.
▪ All Providence Medical Group, patients are permitted to have one support person accompany them to their visit.
In all cases, visitors will be permitted into the hospital only if they screen negative for COVID-19 symptoms, and wear a hospital-issued or medical-grade mask at all times.
The complete Providence Southwest visitation guidelines are available at the Providence Coronavirus website.
This story was originally published February 24, 2022 at 5:45 AM.
