This Utah respiratory therapist died of COVID-19 in the hospital where he helped save newborns for decades
The colleagues of Rufino Rodriguez, 65, showed him love in his last moments.
(Photo courtesy of the Rodriguez family) Mariano Rufino Rodriguez, who worked as a respiratory therapist at Utah Valley Hospital s newborn intensive care unit for decades, died at that hospital Saturday, Jan. 23, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. He was 65.
| Jan. 26, 2021, 1:26 a.m.
Rufino Rodriguez worked 37 years saving lives as a respiratory therapist at Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital, where he “was the one who would fight for all the babies” in the newborn intensive care unit, his son said.