{"id":46649,"date":"2021-05-24T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-health-system-further-relaxes-visitation-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:32:54","slug":"southwest-health-system-further-relaxes-visitation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/southwest-health-system-further-relaxes-visitation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Health System further relaxes visitation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=84e6b350-1c0d-41d3-a9e0-c9fc6d23bfc0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1111\" alt=\"Southwest Memorial Hospital recently completed a $32 million expansion.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Memorial Hospital recently completed a $32 million expansion.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Nunn Construction<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Starting Monday, Southwest Memorial Hospital will allow patients to have two \u201cdesignated companions\u201d accompany them for all medical services.<\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement on Facebook, temperature screenings will continue at designated entrances and anyone entering the facility above the age of 2 is required to wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Patients and visitors must remain in the area where they receive care. Travel throughout the facility remains limited.<\/p>\n<p>SHS began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/southwest-health-system-relaxes-visitation-rules\/\" id=\"link-0c61ef4b863c9eab5c6119d23ebd2283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowing one designated companion <\/a> alongside a patient in early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>designated companions can now accompany patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,28,60,29,210],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-health-system"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86967,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46649\/revisions\/86967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46649"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}