PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has set up a tent near its emergency department entrance to serve as a waiting area amid an “unprecedented” surge of patients.
Hospital emergency departments working overtime to keep up with patients Tim Gordon
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Hospital emergency departments in Oregon have been overloaded with patients since spring and hit a high point last week. At PeaceHealth Southwest Washington Medical Center, it s slowly starting to improve, but emergency rooms are still busy. We’re still quite crowded in the hospital and my understanding is a lot of the hospitals in the area are still quite crowded, but doing better than we were last week for sure,” said Dr. Jason Hanley, medical director of the hospital s emergency department.
Dr. Hanley said he sees a few reasons for the crowds.
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Bob Dylan celebrates his 80th birthday today.
The singer/songwriter born
Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in nearby Hibbing, has gone on to change the landscape of the popular music with his poetic, lyrical and topical songs.
Early in his career, Dylan emerged as a leader of the folk music revival. Influenced greatly by
Woody Guthrie and traditional American roots music, as well as Beat Generation poets and authors, Dylan began writing enduring songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin ” that were embraced by the antiwar and civil-rights movements.
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