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Summary
- Some relief arrived in uniform in December: The state sent a couple of medics and other support staff from the National Guard.
- They mostly work in the emergency department, where every morning patients wait for hospital beds to open.
- Troy Bruntz runs Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility in McCook, Nebraska.
- “That’s the only way we get people to come to work.”Most of the patients in Community Hospital aren’t there for COVID, but the facility is still full.
- Still, the hospital is admitting six to 12 COVID patients daily.