Several UNC Health locations, including the UNC Hospitals campuses in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, have begun temporary visitor restrictions as a health precaution while respiratory illnesses tick up in the winter.
An alert from the healthcare system on Sunday said starting Monday, it is placing age-based restrictions on visitors for those Orange County hospitals and UNC Faculty Physicians inpatient locations, with similar limits being enacted for UNC Health Rex in Raleigh and its UNC Health Johnston locations.
Visitors 11 years old and younger, as well as visitors of any ages with respiratory symptoms, are prohibited from all inpatient areas and waiting rooms — with exceptions considered on a case-by-case basis for visiting terminal care patients, critical care situations and urgent admissions. Healthy visitors of any age remain welcome in our lobbies and retail/food locations…