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April 23, 2020
The LI State Vets Home has seen real hardships during the ongoing pandemic
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‘Here Comes the Sun’
KYLE BARR
The Veterans’ Struggles
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The song played to staff at St. Charles Hospial after a COVID-19 patient is released
An Inside Look at St. Charles Hospital During the Pandemic BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNREWSMEDIA.COM St. Charles Hospital ICU nurse Kacey McIntee, walking through the halls of a hospital in the midst of a pandemic, is just one of scores of RNs who have watched their world flip the wrong way around. Where once the hospital had one Intensive
Care Unit, now it has three. Every time she gets to work, she slips into hospital-issued scrubs and she’s assigned to one of the three units. Every single bed is housing a patient on a ventilator, nearly 40 in all. She’s bedecked in a mask, hair covering and face shield. Typically, the ratio is two ICU patients to one ICU nurse. However, now there are cases where she cares for up to three patients, alongside a
helper nurse. She starts her day by looking at her assigned patients’ charts, and then spends the rest of her 12-hour shift doing her best to keep these patients, many in such dire straits, alive. “A lot of times you can kind of expect something is going to go bad just based on blood values alone,” she said. “We mentally prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario with our patients.” INSIDE ST. CHARLES Continued on A3
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