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GRMC board members applaud hospital employees amid COVID-19 pandemic and daily sacrifices in ensuring that the health and wellness of patients remains the hospital’s top priorities.
By Cindy AguirreHerrera
(Seguin) -- Although the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the nation and much of the world, Guadalupe Regional Medical Center’s top governing board isn’t waiting any longer to publicly thank its hospital employees for their ongoing dedication
Those words of thanks were shared Tuesday to the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court by Dr. James Lee, GRMC’s board chairman. From the very start of the pandemic in March and through the sharp increase in COVID-19 cases that began to hit the hospital in June, Dr. Lee says GRMC has been able to continue to stand tall, meeting the demands of the community. “You
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credit to the doctors, Dr. (Bhupinder) Sangha, Dr. (Juan) Arenas, Dr. (Sarah) Lester. They did a wonderful job. It was a learning process as they went along. It was like building an airplane while it’s flying. That’s the way they had to do. You have to give credit to the nurses. They worked very hard. We had traveling nurses that came in to help. Some came from New York directly and helped in our hospital. They really loved working in our hospital. The therapists did a wonderful job. All the hospital employees were involved in this and so they all did a great, great job,” said Dr. Lee. See DR LEE, page 3
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New voters added to the rosters in Guadalupe County By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- Guadalupe County is reporting even more first time voters for this November 3 General and Presidential Election. Guadalupe County Elections Administrator Lisa Hayes says the total of eligible voters for this election surpassed any of her own predictions. “I believe what we have that will be eligible for this election and I can only give you an approximation right now, but as of Oct. 1, it was 109,000 but I think we are close to 111,000 for the election but this year, we’ve added 13, 377 new voters,” said Hayes. Hayes says the push to drive voters to the polls was evident on Monday, Oct. 5, the final day to register to vote.
“On the voter registration deadline, we got a 1,000 applications in. Now, all of them may not have been new voters but they may have been voters who were registered but just wanted to make sure,” said Hayes. Hayes says the big ballot item which helped fuel much of the interest in this race is of course the U.S. Presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Candidate Joe Biden. Hayes says registration applications even poured into her office after the deadline. Those unfortunately will have to wait until the next election to vote. See VOTERS page 2