Portsmouth Regional Hospital

Patient Info

At Portsmouth Regional Hospital, we recognize that visiting a hospital can be difficult if don’t know your way around – especially if you’re not feeling well or are worried about a loved one. We want your stay with us – however short – to be as relaxed and pleasant as possible. While delivering leading edge medical care using the most sophisticated technologies, our staff also strives to be understanding, caring and supportive of you and your family.

Please click on the following links for the information you need.

Registration
Registration procedures vary depending on the reason for your hospital visit. This page provides an overview.

Inpatient Stay
This page briefly describes our room accommodations, hospitality and support services, and our commitment to service quality.

Visitor Information
We’re pleased to tell you about the services we offer to make your visit to see a patient a safe and pleasant one. We ask that you respect the patient’s wishes, privacy and need for rest by following our simple visitor guidelines.

Financial Services
To assist you with billing questions, concerns, or payment of your hospital bill, we’re pleased to offer you telephone, on-line and in-person service options. This page provides a link to our convenient, on-line bill-paying system.

Medication Safety
Portsmouth Regional Hospital has been nationally recognized for our medication safety program. We are the first hospital in the Seacoast, and one of the first in the nation, to adopt an electronic bar-coding system to ensure medication safety. This system, called "E-Mar," will be phased in throughout the hospital this fall.

Notice of Privacy Practices
If the language in this section sounds like "legalese," that’s because it includes the official guidelines set forth under HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.)

Patient Rights & Responsibilities
We take patient rights very seriously at Portsmouth Regional Hospital. We encourage you to become familiar with both your rights and your responsibilities as a patient.

Prepare for Surgery
Written by staff in our Anesthesia Department, this section includes detailed instructions about what to bring, what to wear and what not to eat and drink before your surgery. It also includes special guidelines for pediatric surgery.

This information, however, is not a substitute for the information you receive from your own surgeon.

This section of our Web site is intended to help you prepare for your hospital visit. If you have suggestions about additional information that we should add to this site to make your visit easier or more comfortable, please let us know in the Public Affairs Office: 433-4045. We appreciate your choosing Portsmouth Regional Hospital, and we want you to be happy with your hospital experience.

Ethics Committee
To assist you in finding solutions to ethical situations that are difficult to resolve.

Advance Directives
This page offers information and resources to help make difficult medical decisions before your hospital stay.