Hospital Access

• As a courtesy, the media is asked to contact the LHSC Communication Department before coming onto Hospital property.
  
  
• The media is not allowed to enter patient care areas and other restricted areas without first obtaining authorization from the Communication Department.
  
  
• The media is asked to wear proper identification of their employer while on hospital property.
  
  
• The media must first notify the Communication Department before interviewing, photographing, filming, or making an audio recording or videotape of an LHSC patient. Signed patient consent, obtained by the Communication Department, is also required.
  
  
• LHSC physicians and staff must also be asked for their permission before the media can use them for an audio or video recording, filming, photographs, or an interview.
  
  
• After-hours media access is not permitted unless arranged in advance. Only under rare exceptions will interviews, videotaping, filming, audio recording, or photographs be authorized, and any authorization must be obtained from the Communication Department. After hours the media can call the LHSC switchboard at (519) 685-8500 and ask for the Communications Officer on-call to be paged.