A former oncology floor is now used for critically ill COVID-19 patients. In some rooms, patients are doubled up. Non-clinical staff and volunteers are helping out however they can — answering phones, cleaning beds — to help a shorthanded staff.
NGHS scrambles to find space for huge volume of patients
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