Starting Monday, new restrictions are taking effect at five major health systems in Oklahoma.
People will no longer be allowed to visit adult patients at the following hospitals:
- INTEGRIS Health (all Oklahoma hospital locations)
- Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City
- Norman Regional Health System
- OU Medicine
- OU Medical Center
- OU Medical Center Edmond
- The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine
- The OU College of Pharmacy locations
- Clinics in OU Physicians,
- Stephenson Cancer Center,
- OU College of Dentistry
- OU College of Allied Health
- SSM St. Anthony Hospital
- SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Shawnee
- SSM Health Bone & Joint Hospital at St. Anthony
- SSM Health St. Anthony Healthplex locations
At certain hospitals for children's care and labor and delivery care, one visitor is allowed to accompany a child or one of those patients to an appointment. The person has to be over 18, even if they are a sibling.
Those hospitals include:
- INTEGRIS Children’s Hospital
- The Children’s Hospital at OU Medicine
- OU Children’s Physicians
- Norman Regional’s Women’s and Children’s Pavilion
- SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital
An announcement that came out Sunday from OU Med also said critical care, hospice and adults patients that need help will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
All the health systems are emphasizing that anyone with flu-like symptoms should not visit the hospital, unless they are trying to get treatment.