Masking Guidelines
Updated January 31, 2025
We have policies and guidelines to help make sure you receive high-quality care in a safe, respectful, and dignified environment.
There are high rates of flu and other respiratory viruses in our region. To help keep everyone safe, we strongly recommend that patients, visitors, and staff wear masks in areas where patients with weakened immune systems receive care. This includes:
- Emergency department and urgent care waiting rooms
- Dedicated oncology, radiation oncology, and transplant clinics
- Infusion centers
Anyone who wants to wear a mask is welcome to do so. We encourage patients who are immunocompromised to continue to wear masks in all of our facilities for additional protection. Any patient or visitor who has a cough, runny nose, or other respiratory symptoms, must wear a surgical mask while inside Penn Medicine facilities.