New Jersey No Patient Left Alone Act guarantees visitation rights for residents in certain facilities.
The New Jersey No Patient Left Alone Act mandates that specific facilities, including community residences for the developmentally disabled, hospices, long-term care facilities, and veterans' homes, establish policies ensuring visitation rights for residents. These policies must allow residents to receive visitors such as domestic partners, essential caregivers, family members, friends, guardians, financial or legal service providers, and religious or spiritual advisors. Residents are entitled to at least two hours of in-person visitation daily.
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