{"id":124185,"date":"2026-02-05T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:05:35","slug":"via-christi-hospital-in-manhattan-reopens-its-main-visitor-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124185\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan reopens its main visitor entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan celebrated the reopening of its main visitor entrance during a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The visitor entrance, located on the northeast side of the hospital, had been closed for about five years following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During that time, all patients and visitors were routed through the patient entrance or the emergency department. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan celebrated the reopening of its main visitor...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Y6UBQ3J5JNDXLDWZ7WEJFDBL5Y.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan celebrated the reopening of its main visitor entrance at a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week. (Ascension Via Christi in Manhattan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe know that navigating a hospital can be stressful, and having to enter through the emergency department wasn\u2019t the welcoming experience we wanted for our community,\u201d said Drew Talbott, interim hospital president, who led Monday morning\u2019s ribbon-cutting ceremony. \u201cReopening this entrance is about more than just unlocking a door &#8212; it\u2019s about making access easier, reducing confusion and properly welcoming our neighbors into the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The visitor entrance will serve as the primary point of entry for guests visiting loved ones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u25cf Hours: Open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u25cf After Hours: Visitors arriving outside of these hours can use the phone located at the entrance to contact security for access. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hospital officials said the reopened visitor entrance offers a \u201cmuch-improved flow\u201d for discharging patients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Families can now pick up discharged patients without driving to other areas of the hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Patients needing to check in should continue to use the patient entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan celebrated the reopening of its main visitor entrance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,54115,34528,54114],"class_list":["post-124185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-reopen","tag-via-christi-hospital","tag-visitor-entrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}