Saratoga Hospital Eases Visitation Rules

SARATOGA SPRINGS —Effective immediately, Saratoga Hospital has eased visitation restrictions, allowing most patients to have two visitors at a time from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

Under the new rules: Visitors may enter the hospital only through the Main Lobby entrance on Church Street and the Emergency Department entrance on Myrtle Street. All visitors must wear an approved mask at all times while inside the hospital. (No bandanas, neck gaiters or buffs, or masks with exhalation valves.) Visiting hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with only two visitors at a time. Visitors must be 12 or older.

Separate guidelines have been established for the Emergency Department, Mental Health Unit, Mother/Baby Unit, Radiation Oncology Center and Surgical Services. Compassionate exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Visitors who have a fever, cough, headache, runny nose, diarrhea or other symptoms of an infectious or acute illness, or are on mandatory isolation or mandatory quarantine, will not be allowed in the hospital.

“These new rules bring visitors back to Saratoga Hospital, a change made possible by our community’s vaccination rates and progress in keeping COVID-19 positivity levels below 1%,” said Dr. Richard Falivena, vice president and chief medical and physician integration officer at Saratoga Hospital.

The new visitation rules apply only to the hospital at 211 Church St. If you will be accompanying a patient to another Saratoga Hospital facility and have questions about visitation, please call the office ahead of time.

More detailed information is available at www.SaratogaHospital.org.