shows us the challenges confronting a rural health care facility in monroe wisconsin. >> very rarely do we see a vaccinated patient. >> reporter: behind six quiet icu curtains. the people who stay here in crisis for days, weeks. >> these patients do not improve overnight. they do not improve over days. it's weeks and weeks and weeks at a time. >> reporter: if they make it out >> it is not as frequent as we'd like. >> they'll stay weeks more, months more in step down facilities living a new harder life. >> their bodies are very de- conditioned they have been in bed for weeks if not months. they're getting fed through a tube in their stomach. they're breathing through a hole in their throat. >> reporter: monroe hospital has 55 patient birth and -- icu beds. they could send their patients to those lodger hospitals. now those calls are coming the other way. >> we're probably fielding six