Experts: Don’t restrict parent visits to child’s hospital bedside

Parents and guardians are “essential caregivers” and should be allowed at their child’s hospital bedside without restriction, especially if they live in the same house, experts argue in a new statement.

Since hospitals began curtailing visitation to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many allow only one parent at the bedside of pediatric patients.

The authors based their consensus statement on responses from parents interviewed for a study of neonatal intensive care at 36 hospitals throughout the country during early COVID.

Here, lead author Ashlee Vance, a research fellow at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, and Deena Kelly Costa, assistant professor of nursing, explain the consensus statement and essential caregivers:

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