Coronavirus: Monmouth Medical Center Restricts Visitors

LONG BRANCH, NJ — Monmouth Medical Center is enforcing temporary visitor restrictions as as the novel coronavirus affects the state and county. All RWJBarnabas Health facilities instituted age restrictions and limits to the number of visitors.

No visitors under 16 will be permitted. Visitation is limited to one person per visit in the following areas:

• all adult medical and behavioral health inpatient units
• all labor and deliver units — only a significant other or support person can visit
• all emergency departments
• all outpatient facilities

Only two people per visit can go to the following areas:

• all pediatric units — only parents and guardians
• all nurseries and neonatal intensive care units — also only parents and guardians

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All visitors will be screen and won't be allowed in based on the following:

• recent international travel history
• recent domestic travel to areas with widespread coronavirus infection
• contact with others who have the virus
• cold or flu-like symptoms

Gatherings of family members, friends and other acquaintances of patients in family lounges, the lobby, cafeterias or restaurants also won't be allowed.

Twenty-three people in the state have tested positive for the coronavirus as of Thursday morning. One person died. Read more: NJ Coronavirus Updates: Here's What You Need To Know

Governor Phil Murphy announced two new cases in Monmouth County on Wednesday.

Two other Monmouth County residents were identified Monday as presumptive positive cases of coronavirus: an 83-year-old Hazlet woman being treated at Hackensack Meridian Health Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, and a 27-year-old Little Silver man who was treated at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, but has since been discharged and is in isolation at home.

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