Preparing For Your Visit
Smoking and Tobacco
South Sunflower County Hospital is a tobacco-free campus; therefore smoking and the use of tobacco products shall not be permitted by any patient, visitor, employee, vendor, contractor, volunteer, and physician in our facility, on the grounds, and parking areas. Electronic smoking devices are also prohibited on all properties.
This policy includes all buildings and properties of the hospital, including Indianola Family Medical Group, Delta Primary Clinic, Delta Surgical Clinic, and Phillips Health Center.
What to Bring
To help ensure a comfortable hospital stay, the items you may wish to bring with you include:
- Personal toiletries, such as a comb, shampoo, toothpaste, and toothbrush, deodorant, etc.
- Bathrobe and slippers or socks
- Medications – Prescription bottles and over-the-counter medications
Eyeglasses, hearing aids, and dentures are your personal items and should be stored in such a way to prevent being inadvertently discarded.
South Sunflower County Hospital is not responsible for lost personal belongings. Valuables should be left at home or given to a family member.
Food and Beverage
Proper nutrition can be as crucial to your health as the right therapy or medication. In fact, food can play such an important role in your recovery that your diet is personally prescribed by your physician and carefully planned by our Licensed and Registered Dietitian.
South Sunflower County Hospital is committed to providing excellent, patient-focused nutritional care to all patients by a Licensed and Registered Dietitian who provides nutritional screenings, assessments, and education based on the established patient care plan For a fee, guest tray service is also available to visiting family and friends of the patient so that they may dine with their loved one. 24-hour vending areas are located in the Front Entrance Lobby and Emergency Department Waiting Area to serve the needs of visitors and other guests.
Wireless Internet Access
Wireless internet access is available free of charge throughout the hospital for your convenience.
Visitation
While visitors can help patients to heal, it is important for all of us to recognize the importance that rest and recuperation play in the patient’s healing process. We work hard to make sure patients and visitors have a pleasant experience in a quiet, secure and restful environment. Your help is requested in abiding by these rules. In accordance with federal regulations, South Sunflower County Hospital recognizes that all patients have visitation rights and are allowed to have a designated support person. Patients will be informed of their rights, subject to his or her consent, to receive the visitors whom he or she designates, including but not limited to, a spouse, a domestic partner (including a same-sex domestic partner), another family member, or a friend. Patients shall have the right to withdraw or deny such consent at any time. South Sunflower County Hospital will not restrict, limit, or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. South Sunflower County Hospital reserves the right to limit visitation as deemed appropriate or as clinically necessary.
The following are examples where visitation may be limited:
- infection control issues
- visitation may interfere with the care of other patients
- the hospital is aware that there is an existing court order restricting contact
- visitors engage in disruptive, threatening, or violent behavior of any kind
- the patient is undergoing care interventions
- In the case of a pandemic event, such as widespread influenza, hospital visitation may be limited based on recommendations of the local county health department.
- Hospital personnel may question visitors at any time to determine the need to be on the premises.
- A visitor who is unruly or who ignores requests to stay in the designated areas may be asked to leave by hospital personnel.
- Any visitor may be asked to leave at any time when deemed appropriate by hospital personnel.
Visitation Hours and Guidelines
PLEASE NOTE: With the increase in statewide COVID cases and how quickly we may need to respond to changes in these policies, visitor guidelines may be subject to change without notice.