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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="6-201" title_number="6" title_name="Health Care Facility Visitation and Medical Emergencies" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Visitation and Medical Emergencies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A hospital, related institution, or residential treatment center, as defined in § 19–301 of this article, shall allow a patient’s or resident’s domestic partner, the children of the patient’s or resident’s domestic partner, and the domestic partner of the patient’s or resident’s parent or child to visit, unless:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>No visitors are allowed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The facility reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor would endanger the health or safety of a patient, resident, or member of the facility staff; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The patient or resident or the patient’s or resident’s personal representative tells the facility staff that the patient or resident does not want a particular person to visit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not prohibit a hospital, related institution, or residential treatment center from establishing reasonable restrictions on visitation, including restrictions on the hours of visitation and number of visitors.</text>
  </level>
</section>
