Visitation Guidelines
Updated: 10/15/2023
- Two visitors allowed per patient and only one visitor allowed to stay overnight. See exceptions below for Birth Center.
- One visitor per patient allowed in COVID units.
- Visiting hours: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. See exceptions below for Behavioral Health, ICU, NICU and Skilled Nursing Unit.
- Only service animals allowed in the hopsital.
Bluebonnet
Birth Center
- While in labor, 4 visitors are allowed in the patients room at a time (swapping is allowed).
- During delivery, only 2 people will be allowed in the delivery room (no swapping is allowed).
- Visitors in the labor and delivery room must be 18+.
- After delivery and while in a patient room, there is no visitor limit during visiting hours. All visitors under 18 must be accompanied by an adult other than the patient.
- One visitor allowed to stay overnight postpartum.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)*
- Visitors must be 18+.
- Visiting hours: 10 a.m. - Noon, 2 - 5 and 8:30 - 10 p.m.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
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Visiting Hours:
- 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
- 7:30 p.m. – 6:30 a.m.
- The NICU will be closed during the admission of a new baby, if deemed necessary by the nursing staff
- Only two visitors will be allowed in the NICU and at the infant's bedside at one time.
- Siblings of the NICU infant (ages 2 - 17) are allowed to visit. No children younger than 17 are allowed to visit if they are not the infant's sibling. No child under 2 years old is allowed to visit the NICU.
- Adult visitors are required to show proof of identification.
- Visitors must observe proper hand hygiene compliance.
- Visitors will be screened for signs and symptoms of an acute illness.
- Visitors' temperatures will be taken on entry to the NICU and must be less than 100⁰ F.
- Food and drinks are not allowed in the NICU.
Mid City
Behavioral Health Unit (BHU)
- Visitors must be 18+.
- Visiting hours: 1 - 2 p.m. and 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- No purses or bags and no electronic devices including cell phones. All visitation will be in a monitored space. All items brought in for patients must be given to a staff member for approval.
Skilled Nursing Unit
- Visitation by appointment only.
*Visitors allowed outside of regular hours in special circumstances.
Hospital Entrance Hours
Bluebonnet
ER Entrance: Open daily, 24 hours
Main Entrance: Closed – Enter through Entrance 3
Entrance 1: Monday - Friday 5 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Entrance 2: Monday - Friday, 6 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Entrance 3: Open daily, 5 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Entrance 4: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Mid City
ER Entrance: Open daily, 24 hours
Main Entrance: Open daily, 5 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Entrance 2: Employee Badge access only
Entrance 3: Monday - Friday, 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Entrance 4: Monday - Friday, 5 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Parking Garage Level 1 Bridge Entrance: Open daily, 6 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Parking Garage Level 2 Bridge Entrance: Employee badge access only
Contact Patient Information
Patient Information - Ascension | (225) 402-2600 |
Patient Information - Bluebonnet | (225) 763-4070 |
Patient Information - Mid City | (225) 387-7748 |