For Visitors

When your loved one is at Backus Hospital, you can rest assured that they are in good hands.

Visitors at Backus Hospital
It is always a difficult experience when a friend, family member, or other loved one is hospitalized. It is our goal to help you feel less stress and be at ease. This section of our website will help you to find all the necessary information to make staying with a family member or visiting a loved on at Backus Hospital as easy as possible.

Hartford HealthCare does not deny, restrict, or otherwise limit visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visiting Hours

Due to COVID-19, visitor safety guidelines are in place at all Hartford HealthCare locations.
 

View our visitor safety guidelines

Dining

Vending machines are located in the Same Day Surgery and Emergency waiting rooms.

The cafeteria is open from 6:30am to 6:30pm.

Breakfast: 6:30 to 10:30am
Lunch: 11am to 1:40pm
Dinner: 5pm to 6:30pm

No hot food is available from 1:40 to 5pm. The cafeteria is on the ground floor in the E wing.

For Visitors

  • Backus Hospital Gift Shop

    326 Washington Street, Norwich, CT
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    Phone: 860.889.8331 x2265
    Hours: M–F, 9:30 AM– 6:30 PM
    Sat, 9:30 AM – 4 PM
    Sun, 1–4 PM

    Gift Shop at the Backus Outpatient Care Center (BOCC)

    111 Salem Turnpike, Route 82, Norwich
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    Phone: 860.889.8331 x4150
    Hours: M–F, 8 AM – 6:30 PM

  • Finance Customer Service 

    Phone: 860.823.6394 x4150
    Fax: 860.892.6902

    Health Information Management

    Phone: 860.823.6382
    Fax: 860.892.2723
    Email: Click here

    Hours: M–F, 8 AM – 5 PM
    * Closed on major holidays