Patients & Visitors
Next to our patients, friends and family members are the most important people we know. Spending time with someone who cares during a hospital stay stimulates smiles and lifts spirits - on both sides of the hospital bed. That's why we encourage visitors to sit and stay awhile; it's a healthy experience for everyone.
Visiting and Quiet Hours
Visiting policies are designed to protect patient privacy, provide patients with the rest needed to help them heal and enable physicians to care for patients in the most efficient way possible.
Bluffton Regional Medical Center has open visiting hours. Please keep visits short and do not visit if you are feeling ill. Nursing staff may limit visits so patients can rest or ask visitors to move to a waiting area for the immediate well-being of the patient.
Quiet hours are observed from 1 - 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. - 7 a.m. daily. An overhead announcement is made at the start of quiet hours.
Gift Shop and Cafeteria
For the safety of all, only employees, medical staff members, authorized visitors (with wristbands), first responders (EMS, Police, Fire) can be served in the cafeteria. Service is carryout only, with no seating permitted and using only disposable items.
Show someone you care.
Phid's Gift Shop is a great place to find all kinds of ways to tell loved ones "I care." Visit us on the first floor, off the main entrance lobby.
Questions?
Call Bluffton Regional Medical Center at (260) 824-3210.
Advance Directives
Each individual has the right to direct his or her own care. Current information about Advanced Directives and Indiana state forms can be found on the Indiana State Department of Health website.
Forms included, but not limited to, include:
- Health Care Representative Appointment
- Life Prolonging Procedures Declaration
- Living Will Declaration (English and Spanish versions)
- Out-of-hospital Do Not Resuscitate Declaration and Order
Learn more at the Indiana State Department of Health website
Parental Consent
If you're traveling and have to leave your children in the care of someone else, be sure they're protected. Always leave written authorization so your children can receive medical treatment, if needed.
Simply download the form below, fill it out, and leave it with your children's caregiver. An authorized form is valid for one year following the signature date unless the form has been withdrawn with written consent.
Delegation of Authority to Treat Minors Consent Form (PDF).
Instructions for the completion of the Delegation of Authority to Treat Minors Consent Form (PDF).