When entering the back door to the hospital from the parking lot, a person greeted us but did not ask any screening questions nor tell us that we needed a visitor badge. After an hour and a half appointment, we went to go upstairs for a blood draw as requested by our doctor and were accosted by a staff member who berated us for not having visitor badges. We tried to explain that we were heading from an appointment where we had been to a blood draw and no one had told us about visitor badges, but she kept ignoring us and saying that we were wrong for not searching her desk out which was out of the way from where we were headed. If you require visitor badges for doctors appointments (which is ridiculous in the first place, because there is zero screening done on health symptoms or even asking if we had an appointment or what we were there for, so what is even the point), then those badges need to be available at each entrance to the facility, especially the entrances off parking lots. People shouldn't have to walk past their doctor's office to hunt down a desk for a visitor badge. Had we not needed a blood draw, we wouldn't have even known visitor badges were required in the building. This policy needs to be thought through more to not inconvenience patients. 
Park Ridge Yacktman 1675 Dempster Peds