Cape Fear Valley Health allowing limited visitors

Most inpatients will be able to have one visitor per day. Visitors are required to wear a mask at all times and will be screened with a verbal questionnaire and a temperature scan before being allowed inside.

Those who refuse to do the questionnaire or have a temperature above 100.3 will not be allowed inside.

Visitors have to stay in the patient’s room during the entire visit, unless they are picking up food from the hospital cafeteria or leaving the hospital for the day. Visitors who leave the hospital for the day will not be allowed back until the next day.

Labor and Delivery patients will be allowed one visitor who can stay overnight for the duration of their stay. Credentialed doulas are also allowed at births as a secondary support person, but will be required to leave after the delivery.

A spokesperson for Cape Fear Valley Health said the main reason for reinstating limited visitation was because the hospital system is back to pre-Thanksgiving and holiday COVID-19 in-patient care cases.

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Hoke Hospital, Bladen County Hospital and Cape Fear Valley Rehabilitation Center patients can have one visitor between noon and 8 p.m.

Long-term acute care patients at Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital will still not be allowed visitors because of the hospital's vulnerable population.

Hospital officials said they will continue to asses COVID-19 cases within the community and will pivot the visitation policy again if needed.