Vidant Health Sets Visitation Restrictions For Children | Eastern NC Now

Due to increasing numbers of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other viral respiratory illnesses cases, beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, only children 12 and older may visit patients at the James and Connie Maynard Children's Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC.

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    GREENVILLE, NC - Due to increasing numbers of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other viral respiratory illnesses cases, beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, only children 12 and older may visit patients at the James and Connie Maynard Children's Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC.

    The purpose of restricting children from visiting the children's hospital is to protect hospital patients, staff and visitors from children who may be carrying various respiratory illnesses.

    However, children under the age of 12 who are not sick and live in the same household may visit their healthy newborn sibling.

    As always, family and visitors of any age should not come to the hospital if they have symptoms of a cold or flu, fever, diarrhea, vomiting or headaches. Also, everyone age six months or older is encouraged to get a flu shot.

    These limitations are temporary and will be removed as soon as viral respiratory illnesses decrease in the community.

    Vidant Health is a mission-driven, 1,439-bed health system that annually serves more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is made up of 12,000 employees, eight hospitals, home health, hospice, wellness centers, and Vidant Medical Group, a multispecialty physician and provider group with more than 420 providers in 80 practice sites. Vidant Health is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. As a major resource for health services and education, Vidant Health has a mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina. For more information, visit www.vidanthealth.com.
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