Someone you love is in the hospital, and you want to do the one thing you can do from the hallway, the office, or another state: send flowers. Here is how hospital delivery actually works in Las Vegas and Henderson, from a shop that delivers to these buildings every day.
First, check the unit: intensive care takes no flowers
Before you choose a single stem, find out which unit your person is in. Summerlin Hospital states the rule plainly on its own patient-services page: "Flowers are delivered to your room as they are received. Flowers are not allowed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)." That is the pattern across the valley. General wards welcome flowers. Intensive care does not, because of infection risk. Some specialty units restrict flowers too, and a few wards limit strong scents or plants.
If your person is in intensive care, the kind move is to wait until they are moved to a regular room, or to send the arrangement to their home for the homecoming. If you are not sure which unit they are in, call us at (702) 737-7077. We deliver to these hospitals daily and can tell you how the building handles it.
What actually happens when your flowers arrive
Our driver does not walk your flowers to the bedside. At hospitals like St. Rose Dominican's Siena and San Martin campuses and Spring Valley Hospital, deliveries are handed off at the front desk or nurses' station, and hospital staff or volunteers carry them up to the room. That handoff is why two details on your order matter more than anything else:
- The patient's full legal name. Not a nickname, not a shortened version. The desk matches deliveries to the patient list by legal name.
- The room number, if you have it. It speeds up the trip from the desk to the bedside. If you don't know it, we can often confirm it with the hospital's information desk, unless the patient has asked for privacy, in which case the hospital won't share it and the flowers are better sent home.
It is also why a vase arrangement, already arranged and in water, is the safest format for a hospital. Ward staff will happily carry a finished arrangement up to a room. They will not stop to arrange loose stems.
Choosing flowers that work in a hospital room
Hospital rooms are small and shared with equipment, staff, and sometimes a roommate. What works:
- Compact arrangements that sit on a tray table or windowsill without getting in the nurses' way.
- Light fragrance. Cheerful color, gentle scent. Tulips, carnations, and daisies are kind to sensitive noses.
- Bright, simple color. Yellows, soft pinks, and light blues read as cheerful in a clinical room.
- No soil. Skip potted plants and arrangements in dirt unless the hospital allows them. A vase in water is the standard.
Our get-well flowers are built to exactly this brief: sized for hospital rooms, arranged in water, ready to hand to the front desk.
The hospitals we deliver to
We deliver to every hospital in Las Vegas and Henderson, including Summerlin Hospital (home to The BirthPlace, The Children's Medical Center, The Heart Center, and The Cancer Center), the St. Rose Dominican campuses in Henderson and Las Vegas, Henderson Hospital, and Spring Valley Hospital, the first acute-care hospital in southwest Las Vegas. The full list, with a delivery note for each building, is on our hospital flower delivery page.
Timing: order by noon for same-day delivery
Hospital deliveries run best earlier in the day, when front desks are fully staffed and patients are awake to enjoy the arrival. Order by noon and we will hand-deliver the same day; delivery is $29.95 per order. If the patient is discharged before the flowers arrive, we call you for a backup address, usually the home, so the gesture still lands.
Questions people ask us
Can I send flowers to someone in intensive care?
No. Flowers are not allowed in intensive care units. Wait until your person moves to a regular room, or send the arrangement to their home instead. Our companion guide, get-well flowers hospitals actually accept, walks through what each kind of unit allows.
What if I don't know the room number?
Order anyway. Give us the patient's full legal name and the hospital, and we will work with the hospital's information desk. The exception is a patient who has requested privacy; then the hospital won't confirm the room, and a home delivery is the better plan.
Do you deliver to Henderson hospitals?
Yes: Henderson Hospital, both St. Rose Dominican campuses in Henderson (Siena and Rose de Lima), and every other hospital in the valley. See the hospital delivery page for the building-by-building notes.
Sending flowers to a hospital is a small thing that does real work. Tell us the patient, the hospital, and the unit, and we will take it from there: (702) 737-7077.
