As delta variant spreads, OLOL and Baton Rouge General change visitation policy - The Advocate

Our Lady of the Lake and Baton Rouge General are changing their visitation policies amid a surge of COVID-19 patients. .

Non-COVID-19 patients are limited to one visitor, 18 years or older, who are allowed to remain at the bedside throughout the patient's hospital stay.

Prior to the new restrictions, the hospital was generally allowing two visitors per patient.

At Baton Rouge General, the hospital's updated visitation policy will allow one visitor per patient on most nursing units, including labor and delivery and the emergency room.

For surgery patients, one visitor will be allowed in the surgery waiting area.

Until the new restrictions were put in place, Baton Rouge General was allowing two visitors per patient in most areas, with no limits in the birth center unless the mother was COVID-positive.

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