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TLU does its part to support local health professionals Campus living now available for GRMC nurses
By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) – Working even harder and taking on longer shifts are not necessarily the top concerns for many doctors, nurses, and other employees at Guadalupe Regional Medical Center. What is ranking high these days is the threat of taking the COVID-19 virus back home with them. That apparently is the concern for many health care professionals as they work around the clock to treat what officials say is a growing number of hospitalized patients at GRMC. Helping to ease many of those worries for those working behind hospital walls is Texas Lutheran University. That’s because the university has opened its campus for those who need it. TLU President Dr. Debbie Cottrell says whether its not wanting to spread the virus to their family, a tiring commute or to house those who have been called in to fight the virus locally, the university is proud to be partnering up with its friends at GRMC. “It’s the nurses who work at GRMC. The space that we’ve made available is really for anyone who is working there right now including some nurses that have been brought in from the outside to help GRMC at this really challenging time so what we’ve provided was a space that anyone that GRMC routes our way in terms of their employees,” Cottrell. As for the idea, Cottrell says opening its residential doors to nurses was sort of a middle of the road decision. See TLU, page 2