Patients & Visitors
Current Visitor Guidelines
Effective the afternoon of March 20, Merit Health Natchez has suspended visitation, with the following exceptions:
- End-of-life, as determined by the care team
- Pediatric patients my have two visitors and both must be parents, guardians or caregiver
- OB patients may have one visitor
Please note that if you are cleared to visit, once you leave for the day, you are NOT allowed back into the hospital. Anyone entering will be appropriately screened and temperature taken.
The front entrance will be locked at 6:00 p.m.
If you would like to drop off a card, gift or other message of encouragement, we are happy to deliver those to patients. You may also call a patient’s room so they can hear your voice and you can hear how they are doing. The hospital has free Wi-Fi, so you may visit patients using Facetime or another video communication app.
We appreciate your patience, understanding and compliance. With your help we can maintain a safe environment for all our patients, visitors, and staff during this extraordinary time.
How to connect with your patient by telephone in patient’s room:
If you know the room number of the patient you are calling, please dial 601-443-2 + the room number. For example, if the room number is 314, dial 601-443-2314.
How to connect with your patient by telephone in patient’s Telemetry room:
Our telemetry rooms are Rooms 1 – 11. To call the patient’s room in Telemetry, dial 601-443-28 +the telemetry bed number. For example, if your bed number is a single digit, Telemetry 2, you would dial 601-443-2802. If your bed number is Telemetry 10, you would dial 601-443-2810.
As you can imagine with our no visitation policy in effect, family and friends are calling the hospital and asking to speak with someone at the nurses’ station to check on their loved one. We truly understand the need and desire to do this.
Our staff wants to give you the most up to date information on your loved one. Please help us by adhering to the following:
- A code, along with the patient’s name, is required in order for a staff member to be able to give you any information over the phone.
- If you do not have a code, please do not call the unit inquiring about your patient. No information will be given.
- It would help us tremendously if only one family member would call each morning and each afternoon to check on their loved one. This family member could then in turn contact others to give this update.
This would help our staff focus on your loved one as well as the other patients being treated in our hospital.
If you do have a code and need to call, please use the following numbers to call in our units:
- 4North – Patient Rooms -- dial 601-443-2480
- 4South –Patient Rooms -- dial 601-443-2470
- 5th Floor – Rehab – dial 601-443-2544
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU) – dial 601-443-2791
- Telemetry – dial 601-443-2645
- Labor and Delivery, 3rd Floor – 601-443-2384
- Post-Partum, 3rd Floor – dial 601-443-2381
At Merit Health Natchez, we understand that coming to the hospital as a patient or as a loved one's support person can be a difficult, often overwhelming experience. Whether you’re preparing for a hospital stay or stopping by to see friends and family, knowing where to go and what to bring will help make your visit less stressful. To make your experience easier, we want to provide you with helpful information you may need to plan your visit, such as what to expect, parking instructions, transportation and more.