Due to raising COVID-19 cases in Greene County, the Greene County Medical Center has reinstated its visitor restriction guidelines.

Visitors are no longer allowed in the medical center unless the visitor is a designated caregiver. To have a caregiver with a patient, that patient must be admitted into the emergency or surgery departments, the patient is dying, the patient is an infant or small child, the patient is suffering from confusion or delirium and other circumstances can be allowed as determined by medical staff. As for designated caregivers, they must be 18 or older, no siblings are allowed, the caregiver must remain in the patient room as appropriate, they must limit movement within the facility and avoid common areas, and they must be free from any illnesses.

Caregivers must wash their hands with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the patient’s room and there is no visitation allowed in the Long Term Care Department. Patio visits with the residents have been suspended at this time.