Lee Health restricts visitations at ERs, convenient care as delta variant spreads

Lee Health is enacting visitation restrictions in all of its ERs due to the increase of COVID-19 cases.

According to Lee Health, “Due to the current capacity and the highly contagious nature of the COVID-19 delta variant, Lee Health is restricting visitation in our emergency departments until further notice.

Visitors will only be granted access in the ED for compassionate care or if they are needed to gather information related to providing care (and thus allowed in the ED at the discretion of our staff). Patients in the obstetrics ED at HealthPark Medical Center will be allowed to have one visitor.

This change to ED visitation is in place at Cape Coral Hospital, Coconut Point, Gulf Coast Medical Center, HealthPark Medical Center, and Lee Memorial Hospital. At Golisano Children’s Hospital, visitation in the ED will be limited to two support people (parent/guardian/support person).”

Lee Convenient Care

Lee Health said in a statement it’s also restricting visitation in Lee Convenient Care sites due to the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant and current patient flow at these locations.

Visitors will only be granted access in Lee Convenient Care if they are needed to gather information related to providing care, or in the event of a special circumstance, which would be at the discretion of the staff.

Over the last several days, the volume of people in the Lee Convenient Care sites is rising significantly due to COVID-19, and patients may experience longer wait times, according to Lee Health.

For the most up-to-date information on visitation restrictions, please visit www.leehealth.org.”