Visiting hours
Regular visiting hours are 5:00 pm to 6.30 pm.
Visiting Rules
Before your visit, please familiarise yourself with our current guidelines:
- If you have a respiratory infection, we kindly ask that you do not visit.
- You must not have recently developed symptoms of a respiratory infection, stomach flu, or similar illnesses.
- Please follow standard infection control measures, such as maintaining good hand hygiene.
- You must be in good health to visit.
Exceptions: Visits to seriously ill patients or women in labour may be permitted. In such cases, please contact the relevant department in advance to coordinate your visit.
Visiting Guidelines – Maternity and Postnatal Wards
Haugesund Hospital
The maternity and postnatal wards have their own visiting guidelines:
- Partner/father: 09:00–13:00 and 16:00–21:00
- Siblings and grandparents: 17:00–18:00
For the wellbeing of mother and baby, other visitors are not permitted in the ward.
- Rest period for mother and baby: 13:00–16:00. No visits are allowed during this time.
Stord Hospital
The maternity and postnatal wards have their own visiting guidelines:
- Monday to Sunday: 16:30–17:30
- Partner/father visits: 18:00–20:00
- Rest period for mother and baby: 13:00–15:00. No visits are allowed during this time.
For the wellbeing of mother and baby, a maximum of four visitors are allowed at a time.
Flowers
Flowers are allowed for patients in the maternity and surgical wards, but not in the medical wards.
We aim to facilitate visits and support for patients as much as possible.
Flu Season
During the winter season, the risk of infection in the community increases. However, our hospitals maintain a high vaccination rate and good basic infection control routines. Therefore, there is less need for additional infection control measures.
This is in line with updated guidance from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) for specialist health services.