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VISITATION UPDATE: Effective Monday, September 5, the following visitation guidelines apply to Texas Children’s locations.

In addition to the visitor guidelines below, we ask that you do all you can to decrease the spread of COVID-19 by continuing to limit your attendance at gatherings, wearing a mask, washing your hands and practicing social distancing in the community.

Surgery: Patients undergoing surgery are allowed two visitor age 18 or older.

• The support visitor may remain throughout the duration of the procedure.
• Siblings, children or other visitors younger than 18 years of age will not be allowed. There is no childcare available at any of our locations.
• Additionally, all patients and caregivers will be subject to screening (exposure and symptom questions and a temperature check) upon arrival.
• Visitors who are sick will not be permitted to enter the Hospital; this rule is without exception.
• We encourage visitors, when appropriate, to remain closely connected to their loved ones through virtual means, including FaceTime or phone.
• On the rare occasion that a COVID+ patient is approved for surgery by the surgical team additional restrictions may apply.

All Pavilion for Women inpatient units (including Labor and Delivery)

COVID-19 NEGATIVE INPATIENT VISITATION GUIDELINES:

• Families may designate up to four caregivers of any age 18 or older for the duration of a patient’s hospital stay. Up to two caregivers can be at the hospital at any given time.
• Any ill support visitor will not be allowed to accompany the patient during labor and delivery and will be asked to leave the hospital.
• If a support visitor becomes ill, please be prepared to designate a new support visitor who is not exhibiting symptoms.

Women’s Specialty Unit (WSU) Exception: 

One healthy child of an admitted WSU patient, younger than 18 years of age, may visit for up to a single, consecutive, four-hour duration per day. One or two adults from the designated caregiver list must be present during the child’s visit. Unit specific restrictions apply. There is no childcare available at any of our locations.

COVID-19 POSITIVE AND PUI INPATIENT, L&D, AND WAC VISITATION GUIDELINES:

• Mothers in labor who are COVID+ or PUI are allowed two primary caregivers age 18 or older on site throughout the labor process.
• Patients in the women’s assessment unit (WAC) are allowed one support visitor age 18 or older on site for the duration of the patient’s visit.
• Patients admitted to the hospital who are COVID+ or PUI are allowed one primary caregiver age 18 or older on site for the duration of the patient’s stay.
• If the support visitors leave, they must directly exit the facilities while wearing a mask and will not be permitted to return to the facility for the duration of the stay.
• Visitors who are sick will not be permitted to enter the Hospital; this rule is without exception.

Outpatient appointments: One healthy adult visitor may accompany patients to all Women’s Services Ambulatory visits. This includes Pavilion for Women outpatient locations and all community locations.

• Baylor College of Medicine OBGYN Clinic, 3rd floor
• Texas Children's Family Fertility Center, 3rd floor
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic, 4th floor oThe Women’s Place, 3rd floor
• Partners in Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, 7th floor
• Women's Specialists of Houston Clinic, 15th floor
• The Woodlands Women’s Clinic

This rule also applies to all Pavilion for Women community clinic locations:

• Pearland OBGYN Clinic
• All community Maternal-Fetal Clinic locations

If you have any questions, please contact your nurse or Family Advocacy for assistance at 832-824-1919

Our clinical and administrative leaders review COVID-19 positivity rates at Texas Children’s, across the Texas Medical Center and in the community daily, and if/when rates begin to rise again, we will act quickly to reexamine and update our visitation guidelines, as needed.