Carilion Clinic loosening visitation restrictions by allowing two visitors per patient
The transition for some area hospitals will begin May 26
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ROANOKE, Va. – As coronavirus cases decrease in our area, Carilion Clinic is set to loosen visitation restrictions for patients.
Carilion will transition its visitation restrictions from the yellow level, which only allowed adult patients one visitor, to the green level, which will allow for each adult patient to have two visitors per day during an inpatient stay.
At this level, hospital waiting rooms are still closed.
The following hospitals in our area will move to the green level starting on Wednesday, May 26:
Carilion to loosen visitation restrictions in several hospitals this week
The new visitor restrictions will start Tuesday at 9 a.m.
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ROANOKE, Va. – A coming change will allow many adult patients to now have a visitor with them.
Starting Tuesday at 9 a.m., the following hospitals will shift from Carilion’s highly-restricted red level down to just restricted visitation of its yellow level:
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital
Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital
Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital will continue operating at the red level remain until further notice.
Yellow level allows most patients to have one adult visitor per day, something not allowed while hospitals were at red level.
64-year-old man dies in Friday morning Route 460 crash in Giles County
He succumbed to his injuries later that morning in the hospital
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GILES COUNTY, Va. – Police say a Giles County man is dead following a crash that happened Friday morning.
At about 10:15 a.m., a 1990 Chevrolet S10 pickup truck was traveling west on Route 460, near Route 758, when it drove off the left side of the highway, went through the median and crossed the eastbound lanes. The pickup continued off the road before overturning.
64-year-old James E. Sanders, of Pembroke, was transported to Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg where he succumbed to his injuries later that same morning.
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1,000 Giles County seniors vaccinated at drive-thru clinic
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“We are very grateful and very relieved,” said Mullis, a 77-year-old from Giles County.
Dose after dose, about 150 volunteers partnered with the county to vaccinate around 1,000 seniors 75 years and older, with help from Carilion Giles Community Hospital. They hosted a drive-thru clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Giles High School.
“Localities are going to have to step up and try to help I think through this process if we’re really going to get the vaccine out,” said Giles County Administrator Chris McKlarney.