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Settling In

Rooms
All of our rooms are private rooms but billed as semi private to ensure insurance coverage.  Each room has an individual bathroom with a shower. Space is provided for your clothes and a cabinet for your personal belongings is next to your bed.  We encourage all patients to leave their valuables home.

Call Signals 
A call signal near your bed can be used to summon a nurse. When you press the button, a light goes on at the nurses station and a bell rings. A nurse will come to your room or may contact you through an intercom system from the nurse’s station.

Your Bed
Your bed can be electronically raised and lowered for the most comfortable position for you.  Your nurse will show you how to operate the controls.  Please check with your nurse before getting out of bed.If you need assistance, please call for your nurse.

Your Meals
The Food and Nutrition Services Department takes pride in providing you with quality meals while adhering to any special dietary restrictions that your physician may have ordered.

A selective menu will be provided for you daily. Please take a few minutes
each morning to choose your meals for the day. A dietary staff member will pick it up shortly after breakfast or you may return it on your tray.

Your meals will be served at the following times:

Breakfast                8 a.m.
Lunch                      Noon
Dinner                     5 p.m.

Beverages and snacks are available between meals. Patients’ guests are invited to visit our cafeteria (link to guest services) for snacks or meals.

A clinical dietician is available for consultation if you should have questions concerning your diet or have a special request concerning your meals. Let us know if we can make your stay more comfortable.

Television
Each room is equipped with a television.  Cable television is available and all standard channels are available for viewing at no charge.

Telephones
Telephones are available to all patients. Calls may be made to you from outside of the hospital by dialing (603) 536-1120 and asking for your room number or your direct line is posted in your room for your caller’s convenience.

To make a local call from your room, dial 9 and then the 7-digit number. All
out of area calls must be billed to a credit card, home phone or called collect. These calls can be make by dialing “0” only, then give the operator your billing preference.

Cellular or Wireless Phones 
The use of cellular or wireless phones is restricted to non-clinical areas such as waiting areas, lobby, solarium or the first floor of the North Wing. 

Smoking
Speare Memorial Hospital is a non-smoking campus.  Talk with your doctor before you arrive or during your stay if you feel a nicotine patch or other prescription might be helpful in your efforts to refrain from smoking.

Patients Guide

Visitors

Based on principles of patient/family centered care, the following visitation guidelines have been established to ensure the best possible care for patients during their stay:
  • Visitors are asked to check in at the Nurses' Station before visiting to allow for teaching that may be needed (e.g. infection control precautions, dietary restrictions, cell phone use etc.) as well as to avoid interruption of patient care.
  • The number of visitors is dependent on the needs and comfort of the patient, however the impact of the patient's visitors on the overall environment of care will be considered. Hospital staff may limit the number of visitors as necessary.
  • All patients have the right to receive the visitors whom he or she designates, including but not limited to, a spouse, a domestic partner (including a same sex domestic partner), another family member, or a friend, as well as the right to withdraw consent at any time.
  • Visitors with colds or flu-like symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat), or any other contagious disease should not visit hospitalized patients. If visiting is deemed absolutely necessary, visitors must strictly adhere to proper hand washing and masking protocols.
  • Children under the age of 12 are permitted to visit for short periods of time and must be supervised by an adult (other than the patient) at all times. In the Birthing Suite, only visitation by siblings of the newborn are permitted.
  • Should the need arise, in consideration of the privacy of all our patients, visitors will be directed to the appropriate waiting room.
General visiting hours are from 10am to 8pm. If these hours do not meet the needs of the patient/family the Nursing staff will discuss alternate arrangements.

Parking

Ample parking for out-patients and visitors is available in the east parking providing access to the main entrance on Hospital Road.

Parking for the Emergency Room and Visiting Physician Suite is available in the Avery Street parking lot at the west end of the hospital.