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Meriter's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Program
Personal Belongings and Gifts

Below is a listing of items that are and are not allowed in Meriter's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Hospital. If you are visiting a patient and wish to bring a gift, we recommend one of the following:

  • Flowers in plastic vases
  • Magazines
  • Drawing/writing materials
  • Stuffed animals
     
  • Matchbox cars, etc.
  • Pictures of family and friends
  • (Sorry no food, balloons or glass items)

Allowed in the Hospital

Not Allowed in the Hospital
May Have in Your Room


1. Clothes

2. Socks

3. Shoes (only one pair with laces)

4. Coat

5. Cordless radio and/or alarm clock (you need to provide batteries)

6. Jewelry if on your person (the hospital recommends you leave any jewelry of value at home)

7. Posters, pictures, as long as appropriate

8. Reading/writing material

9. School work

10. Stationery, envelopes, stamps

11. Shampoo, conditioner, non-aerosol hairspray, lotion

12. Pillow and blanket (optional)

13. Phone cards (if you will need to make long distance phone calls)

14. Transitional items (photos, stuffed animals)		 Needs to Stay at Nursing Station or Patient Bin

1. Nail file, tweezers (at Nursing Station)

2. Any type of medication

3. Any items that to be stored while on precautions (belts, shoelaces, etc.)

4. Hats/bandanas can only be worn outside the hospital

5. Spiral notebooks are only allowed in the schoolroom		 Not Allowed in the Hospital


1. Food/Drinks

2. Cameras

3. Tobacco products

4. Lighters, matches, candles

5. Weapons of any kind

6. Videotapes / DVDs

7. Tape recorders

8. Marbles / rocks

9. Pets

10. Cassette tapes, CD's

11. Razors are not permitted in hospital unless battery operated and cordless

12. Walkmans/IPods

13. Hand-held video games or video games of any sort

14. More than one pair of shoes with shoelaces

15. Clothing items with drawstrings

16. Any glass items (including compacts, mirrors, etc.)

17. Cell phones/pagers

18. Spiral notebooks

19. Violent action toys

20. Inappropriate reading materials

21. Plastic bags, balloons, condoms, or other rubber-like materials

22. Pokemon or Yugioh cards

* All above items need to be sent home. Not to be kept in patient bins.

We recommend that you limit belongings brought in during your brief hospital stay.


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6/1/2006