visiting hours
Permitted guest times
Visiting hours are the designated times when outsiders may see patients in hospitals, inmates in prisons, or residents in care facilities.
Outside these windows, access is typically restricted: Visiting hours end at eight.
The phrase implies institutional control over when personal contact is permitted.
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
- nursing homeLong-term eldercare residence
- bedFurniture for slumber
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- intensive care unitHospital ward for critical patients
visitation rights · schedule · ICU · loneliness · end of life · companionship · reunion · security checks · time slot · restrictions · limited access · goodbye · anticipation · prison · correctional facility · waiting · nurse · patient care
- historic mansiongrand staircase, ballroom, library, drawing room, dining hall
- hospital website sectionspatient services, admission info, staff directory, specialty clinics
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Victorian eraparlour, Victorian etiquette, etiquette, parlor games, courtship
- hospitalizationhospital bed, hospital gown, inpatient, admission, discharge papers
- hoursone o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock
visiting hoursopen-door policy
Unrestricted access principle
free access · lockdown · restricted access · quarantine · isolation
visiting hoursoff-hours
Non-working periods
after hours · blackout periods · quiet hours · curfew · lights out