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 For the safety of patients and their families, the hospitals in
February limited inpatient hospital visits to two visitors per
patient at one time and said visitors should be limited to people
who are at least 18 years old and showed no sign of illness.
The health system also encouraged those accompanying outpatients at
Memorial facilities to consider these same recommendations.
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The hospitals are Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Memorial Medical
Center in Springfield, Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville and Taylorville
Memorial Hospital.
Seasonal flu activity usually peaks in January and February, beginning as early
as October and ending as late as May, according to the CDC website. As many as
20 percent of all Americans get the flu each year.
[Michael Leathers, MHS] |
