Yuma Regional Medical Center preparing for COVID-19 holiday surge
News 11 s Adonis Albright has details on how the hospital is addressing an anticipated rise in cases
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Medical experts at Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) have long anticipated a holiday surge in COVID-19 cases.
With people expected to gather for New Years celebrations, January is largely expected to be a tough month ahead for frontline workers.
YRMC is getting additional staffing with various skillsets to meet a wide variety of demands. We also have a federal team coming on board, we’re expecting about 40 nurses - probably about 20 ICU and 20 med surge nurses, and this is from a federal strike force team… They’ve been going around where the different potshots are to help with staffing and so forth, and being in Yuma, as you know, it’s the only hospital for 150-180 miles. It’s really crucial that we have that staffing so we can open the beds , said Diane Poirot, the Chief H
Yuma couple gives birth to one of the first babies in 2021
News 11 s Adonis Albright speaks with the family about how the experience felt
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Anistyn Millie Rice was born at 6 pounds and 20 inches, just 10 minutes after midnight on Friday, January 1 at Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC).
Her mother, Lisa, said although she is definitely tired after the labor, she is excited to know her baby was the first to be born in the new year.
“Absolutely amazing, never did I think that she would be the first one of the new year, so super excited, said William, Lisa s husband.
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Emergency room physician Cleavon Gilman, seen in front of the Gowan Company building in historic downtown Yuma, Ariz.
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As a combat medic deployed with the Marines in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Cleavon Gilman saw bodies torn apart by IEDs. He heard agonizing screams, saw burned flesh and penetrating trauma. He stood in pools of blood, tending to Marines with severed spinal cords, missing limbs, and intestines bulging through gaping wounds. He emptied the pockets of the dead, collecting baby pictures and ultrasound photos, removed dog tags, and stacked bodies, sometimes two and three at a time, into refrigerated trailers. He still has PTSD, though he returned from the war 16 years ago. Even so, that experience did not prepare him for the coronavirus.
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