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Visiting Hours and Other Helpful Information

Family and friends play an important part in helping patients recover. Visiting hours at Halifax Health Medical Center give family and friends as much visiting time as possible without interfering with our patients’ wellbeing. If you plan on seeing a patient at Halifax Health Medical Center, please review our hours, policies and procedures to ensure your visit goes as planned.

Visiting Hours
Privacy
Food and Snacks
Gift Shop

Visiting Hours

Unit Visiting Hours
General Visiting Hours 6:00 am - 8:00 pm; subject to nurse or physician discretion and patient condition
Critical Care
(4th & 5th Floor)		 24 hours a day; visitors limited at the nurse's discretion and based on patient's condition
Labor & Delivery 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Fathers and grandparents may visit anytime. Siblings may visit from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm.
Speediatrics Parents, guardians and/or grandparents may visit any time day or night, with special passes provided by the Pediatric Department.
Halifax Psychiatric Center 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Monday through Friday;
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays.

Please note, in general, visiting hours are from 11:00 am - 8:00 pm. It is suggested that visits be limited to periods of 15 minutes or less, and no more than two visitors at a time are permitted. Any person with a cold, sore throat or other transmittable illness should not visit patients. Children should never be left unattended in any area of the hospital, and we ask your cooperation in assuring that they are with an adult at all times.

  • Children may visit for 10-15 minutes at a time. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult who must be present at all times.
  • Any visitors wishing to visit after 8:00 pm must enter the hospital through the Emergency Department entrance and sign in with Security.
  • Visitors with communicable diseases (colds, flu, etc.) may be restricted from visiting at the discretion of the nurse in charge.
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We Protect Our Patients' Privacy

Privacy is an important matter. At Halifax Health we treat our patient’s privacy very seriously. We have a system in place that addresses two important areas:

  • The sharing of information about a patient’s condition with relatives and friends
  • Protecting patient privacy by allowing the patient to identify who has access to their information

Patient privacy regulations only allow us to give a one-word condition such as “satisfactory,” “fair,” “serious,” or “critical,” about your hospital care. We will give your room number to individuals that come in person and ask about you by name unless you tell us not to.

If you give us permission to tell certain people, such as a close friend or relative, more about your care when they call or visit, you may give them a personal identification number (PIN) to access your info. Your caregiver will be glad to assist you with this.


Here’s How the Personal Identification Number (PIN) Process Works

  • Each patient (or a legal representative) is given a personal identification number (PIN).
  • The patient (or legal representative) may then give this number to other persons he or she has given permission to receive more information than a one-word condition.
  • A specially designed information piece and wallet card for recording the PIN are given to the patient as well as the person(s) authorized by the patient.
  • When callers or visitors ask for a patient by name and identify themselves using the correct PIN, caregivers can only then provide information on the patient’s condition such as vital signs, doctor’s instructions, estimated length of stay, and results of diagnostic tests.
  • For callers or visitors who do not provide the PIN, information is limited to a one-word condition, unless the patient is given an opportunity to agree or object to the sharing of additional information.
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Food and Snacks

Cafeteria

The Cafeteria is located on the ground floor, one floor below the entrance from the main parking lots and Clyde Morris Boulevard. Visitor prices are posted in the cafeteria. Normal Cafeteria hours of operation are:

  • Monday through Friday: 6:30 am - 6:30 pm, and 2:00 - 4:00 am.
  • Holidays and weekends: 6:30 - 9:00 am, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, 4:30 - 6:30 pm and 2:00 - 4:00 am.

Snacks

The Snack Shop is located just off the East Lobby on the ground floor of the Medical Center, adjacent to the Auditorium, which is open around-the-clock. The Foglifter Café, a coffee kiosk, is located in the Snack Shop.

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Gift Shop

The Halifax Medical Center Auxiliary operates a complete Gift Shop offering cards, gifts, candies, flowers and a wide range of toiletry and specialty items. Located just off the main lobby entrance, its hours are:

  • Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 8:00 pm. (except during the summer when it closes on some days at 4:30 pm.)
  • Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 - 5:00 pm.
  • Closed on major holidays
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