{"id":224716,"date":"2026-01-03T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224716\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:50:08","slug":"south-county-hospital-will-require-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224716\/","title":{"rendered":"South County Hospital will require masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South County Hospital said all visitors, patients and health care workers will be required to wear a mask starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The masking requirement applies to all patient care areas and anywhere there are people congregating, including the lobby and waiting rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The requirement applies to South County Hospital and all South County Health locations, including Express Care, lab, diagnostic imaging, primary care, Center for Women\u2019s Health, and specialty practices.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island has a seen a surge in flu and COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Brown University Health and Care New England already have masking requirements in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South County Hospital said all visitors, patients and health care workers will be required to wear a mask&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-224716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}