Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach Family & Visitor Information

Visitor Hours

We welcome you to stay with your child and encourage your child to have visitors. To maintain the healthiest environment possible and to avoid infections please make sure that visitors with a cough, sniffles, or sore throat and other symptoms wait until they are well to come visit.

• General visiting hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Intensive care units (PICU & NICU) are from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Visiting Guidelines

• Only two visitors per patient are allowed in the room at one time.
• Out of respect for surgical patients in the waiting room, no food or drink is allowed.
• The family waiting area is equipped with televisions for family members.
• Only one visitor is allowed at a time in patient recovery.
• Cell phones are not allowed in the patient recovery area – they can be used in the waiting room.
• If you have completed and notarized forms (Advance Directives, Power of Attorney, or a Living Will) please bring them with you the day of your surgery.
• If no legal document is available, a surrogate decision maker will be assigned by the patient prior to surgery.
• For the safety of our patients, latex balloons are not permitted at the hospital.