Help Us Protect Your Child
When children are critically ill, their bodies are not good at fighting off germs. Because they are much more likely to get an infection, we need to protect them, just as we protect newborn babies.
Your nurses, doctors and therapists at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center need your help in limiting the number of visitors and keeping your child's surrounding as clean as possible. For your child's safety, please follow these four basic guidelines:
Observe visiting hours
- Parents and guardians may be with their child 24 hours a day
- Others visitors 9 am to 8:30 pm
Limit visits from young children
- Children under age 14 may not visit critically ill children
- Special arrangements can be made for short visits by brothers and sisters age 4-14
Limit visitors to two or three at a time
Protect against germs
- Ask sick family members and friends to stay home
- Ask all visitors to wash their hands before and after visiting
- Do not bring food and drink into your child's room
- Do not bring live plants or flowers into the room
- Whenever possible, meet with visitors in the waiting room
