The Family Place Mission Statement and Visiting Guidelines
Mission Statement
The Family Place at WellSpan Evangelical embraces the beauty and diversity of life. It is our privilege to share with you in life’s greatest experience – the birth of your baby.We respect the importance of support and encourage involvement of family and friends during this joyful event. We also recognize birth as a unique and natural process and extend to you an environment of knowledge, support, and nurturing.
Your Rights as a Patient at The Family Place
- You can choose not to receive visitors for any reason. Please tell a member of the nursing staff if you do not want to have any visitors or specific visitors.
- If we’re delivering your baby by cesarean section – and you will be awake during the procedure, one person is able to join you in the operating room. Whoever goes with you will need to agree in advance to immediately leave the operating room at the staff’s direction if this becomes necessary.
- Regulations protecting your privacy mean that our staff cannot share information about you with your family or friends without your authorization.
Guidelines for Your Visitors
- Offer support and encouragement to you
- Respect the privacy of other patients by not lingering in hallways
- Wait in our reception area if we need to ask them to leave your room, and remain there until we invite them to return
- Limit photography and videography to times when our staff is not performing a procedure.