It wasn’t that long ago that Franciscan Health hospital in Crown Point was filled, and placed on bypass — like many of the Region’s hospitals — due to the COVID-19
Wanda Jordan, ICU Manager at Gary Methodist, speaks about how thank you notes from previous patients help inspire her and her team.
GARY â Wanda Jordan, intensive care unit manager at Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus, thought she had seen it all during her 41-year nursing career.Â
And then the pandemic hit, showing her new tragic heights she never thought sheâd experience in the ICU.
An elderly woman drove to Northwest Indiana to attend a funeral â âa melting pot for COVID to erupt,â Jordan said â and ended up on her death bed in an unfamiliar city.
Wanda Jordan, ICU director at Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus, has been on the forefront of the pandemic. She has fought the virus both as a caretaker and a patient.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.