Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) Visitors
must be processed through a security checkpoint to access the visitation area
in the secure perimeter to protect the safety and security of the hospital.
Security staff or direct care staff must screen all visitors, including visual
inspection, metal detection screening, and pat-downs.
(2) Lockers may be provided for visitors' use
to store purses, carrying cases, or other personal items until the visit is
over.
(3) A visitor may be asked to
submit to a security inspection or pat-down but may deny consent for the
search. If the visitor denies or withdraws consent for the search at any time,
visitation will be denied and any search must be immediately discontinued..
(4) Prior to entering the secure
perimeter and prior to visitation, all visitors, including attorneys,
investigators, and psychologists or other professionals hired by the patient or
attorney, must undergo security screening, including minors and service
animals. For most visitors, successfully completing security screening and the
related inspection of clothing and authorized items will alleviate the need for
a pat-down.
(5) Visitors are
subject to a security inspection (visual inspection, metal detection screening,
and wanding) prior to entering the secure perimeter of the hospital. Security
inspections are conducted as follows:
(a)
Visitors must be in a single or base level of clothing. All additional items
such as hats, gloves, coats, multiple layers of shirts, extra socks and shoes
must be removed. Visitors must turn out their pockets, and their sleeves and
cuffs must be unrolled.
(b)
Visitors may be asked to remove body piercings or excessive jewelry to expedite
the screening process. Excessive jewelry, areas of the body that have body
piercings or undergarments with metal clasps or adjusters often alarm metal
detectors and may delay or even prevent visiting.
(c) For wanding, visitors must stand with
legs approximately shoulder-width apart and their arms outstretched.
(d) Visitors are required to cooperate with
the instructions of security staff or direct care staff in order to facilitate
the security inspection process, such as requests to turn out pockets, unroll
cuffs, or turn around. If visitors do not cooperate, the visit must
terminate.
(6) Visitors
with a medical device such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, device that operates
under magnetic calibration, metal implants, wheelchair, bone growth stimulator,
or other internal or external medical device) should check with their doctor
prior to arriving at OSH to determine if it is safe to go through the metal
detection screening. Depending on their doctor's recommendations, the visitor
must include that information in their visitor application or provide an update
to OSH if discovered after the application is submitted.
(7) Visitors who are exempt from metal
detection screening include those persons who have provided OSH in their
visitor application approved documentation of a metal condition or medical
device or equipment in or upon their person. If a person is exempt from metal
detection screening, a pat-down must be conducted prior to entry into the
secure perimeter for visitation.
(a) All
pre-disclosed and approved medication, medical devices and equipment, and
service animals must be searched prior to visitation.
(b) A modified search will be used for
visitors requiring wheelchairs or electric scooters as the reliability of
hand-held metal detectors is limited by the structure of the chair or scooter.
Visitors in wheelchairs or electric scooters must limit their accessories and
personal possessions to only those items medically necessary and allowed within
these rules during visitation.
(8) If metal detection screening alerts to
the presence of metal, or security staff or direct care staff suspect the
presence of contraband, security staff or direct care staff must investigate
with a pat-down.
(9) Pat-downs must
be conducted as follows:
(a) A minimum of two
OSH staff members, comprised of either security staff or direct care staff,
must conduct pat-downs.
(b) The
security staff or direct care staff member making physical contact with the
visitor to conduct the pat-down must be the same sex as the visitor. If visitor
expresses a preference for a staff member of their same gender identity to
conduct the pat-down, a security staff or direct care staff member of that
gender identity must conduct the pat-down. However, if a security staff or
direct care staff member of the visitor's preferred sex or gender identity is
not immediately available to conduct the pat-down, then a security staff or
direct care staff member, who is not the visitor's preferred sex or gender
identity, may conduct the pat-down with the visitor's consent. If the visitor
does not consent, the visit must terminate. Other security staff or direct care
staff, who are involved in the pat-down but who are not making physical contact
with the visitor, do not need to be the visitor's preferred sex or gender
identity.
(c) Visitors must be
wearing a single or base level of clothing. All additional items such as hats,
gloves, coats, multiple layers of shirts, extra socks and shoes must be
removed. Visitors must turn out their pockets, and sleeves and cuffs must be
unrolled.
(d) Visitors must stand
with legs approximately shoulder-width apart and their arms
outstretched.
(e) Pat-downs must be
conducted within view of the camera surveillance system.
(f) Visitors are required to cooperate with
the instructions of security staff or direct care staff to facilitate the
pat-down process, such as requests to turn out pockets, unroll cuffs, shake out
their clothing, or turn around. If the visitors do not want to cooperate, then
the visit must terminate.
(10) Visitors who bring in service animals
will be subject to the following requirements:
(a) Visitors must be responsible to ensure
that the service animal is properly controlled and behaved at all
times.
(b) Visitors may be asked
the following in relation to the service animal:
(A) If the animal is required because of a
disability; and
(B) What work or
task the animal has been trained to perform.
(c) Visitors are required to remove any
apparel or other item the service animal is wearing so that security staff or
direct care staff may search the item prior to entry into the secure perimeter
of the hospital;
(d) Patients are
not allowed to touch service animals.
(e) A visitor will not be asked to remove the
service animal from the premises unless:
(A)
The animal is out of control and the visitor does not take effective action to
control it; or
(B) The animal is
not housebroken.
(f)
Where there is a legitimate reason to ask that the service animal to be
removed, staff shall offer the visitor the opportunity to visit without the
animal's presence, if the visitor can arrange to have the animal removed and
cared for and controlled outside of the secure perimeter. Under no
circumstances may a staff person remove or care for the animal.
(11) If illicit contraband is
found on a visitor or in their property at any time, including hidden in their
prescription medication, or medical devices or equipment, security staff or
direct care staff must confiscate the item and contact law enforcement. OSH
must also:
(a) Create a chain of custody and
hold the illicit contraband in a secure area; and
(b) Contact law enforcement and turn over the
illicit contraband if law enforcement is willing to accept the item(s), and
document the action taken. If law enforcement declines to investigate further
or accept the illicit contraband, then dispose of the illicit contraband in the
presence of at least two OSH staff and document the action taken.
(12) Any approved item entering
visitation with a child or other visitor will be searched during the screening
process by security staff. Security staff shall search the additional items
approved for minor visits or other visitors who had been pre-approved to bring
medications, medical devices or equipment into the secure perimeter upon exit
to ensure they are exiting with the visitor.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 179.040, 413.042 &
179.360
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 179.321 &
426.385
