Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center to allow limited patient visitation
7 Eyewitness News Staff
and last updated 2021-01-29 13:14:32-05
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) â Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center announced Friday it will allow limited patient visitation in its acute care areas for the first time since December.
The new policy comes with several restrictions and it will be reviewed regularly.
Visiting hours on the medical/surgical units including Labor & Delivery and Surgery will be from 12 noon to 4 p.m. daily
Visitation to the ICU will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Exceptions may be made in end-of-life or labor and delivery situations
Michael Gawel was sent off Tuesday morning with a round of applause from the hospital staff who cared for him while he was on a ventilator for much of the last two months. The 64-year-old Niagara Falls resident, speaking to the media while on a stretcher in a hospital overhead walkway, said he was grateful for that care.
“Everybody, from the doctors and nurses, everybody was just fantastic. I think I was gone a couple of times, and they brought me back,” he said. “Then my wife, if it wasn t for her and everybody here, I d be gone. I d be dead.”
Decline in Canadian patients means more lost dollars for hospitals
“In the economic situation we’re in right now, every patient and every bit of revenue counts for us, said Pat Bradley of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
Credit: WGRZ Author: Tracey Drury, Business First /Bizjournals.com Published: 9:07 AM EST January 28, 2021 Updated: 9:08 AM EST January 28, 2021
NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. Though they represent a fraction of overall numbers, Canadian patients typically account for more than 1,000 visits at area hospitals every year. But Covid-19 restrictions at the border are sure to put a dent in those figures, once finalized for 2020.
Most area hospitals say the decline is negligible, compared to the 2 million-plus patients in total. Still, in a business climate where every dollars is welcome – especially private-pay dollars from Canadians it’s something.
Michael Gawel was released from the hospital Tuesday morning after being hospitalized for 68 days; most of his time there was spent on a ventilator in the ICU.
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