Samaritanâs Purse opens new field hospital at Caldwell UNC
Samaritanâs Purse opens new field hospital at Caldwell UNC By Sharonne Hayes | January 7, 2021 at 2:34 PM EST - Updated February 16 at 6:10 PM
CALDWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - Samaritanâs Purse joined several North Carolina hospitals in providing a new emergency COVID-19 field hospital in Lenoir.
The 30-bed campus constructed in the parking lot of the Caldwell Memorial Hospital was built in just seven days and will provide regional COVID-19 care support for those living in western North Carolina.
Edward Graham spoke on behalf of Samaritanâs at the groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday morning.
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Appointments for Catawba County residents 75 and older to receive the COVID-19 vaccine opened on Tuesday. So many people called Catawba County Public Health that the appointment phone line crashed.
A new field hospital in Lenoir will start accepting COVID-19 patients on Wednesday.
It was difficult to find a quiet spot Tuesday afternoon in the paved lot next to Caldwell UNC Health Care in Lenoir as dozens of people rushed to meet a deadline.
A man in a blue surgical mask sawed two-by-fours. A woman wheeled two computer carts wrapped in plastic. In the middle of all of the action stood 11 white plastic tents. Melissa Strickland pulled open the flap on one of the tents and stepped inside the state’s first COVID-19 field hospital.
“You can see they’re just setting up this ward and putting all of the equipment in place,” Strickland, a spokesperson for Samaritan’s Purse, said. The Boone-based international disaster relief organization is managing the field hospital which plans to start accepting patients on Wednesday.
Samaritanâs Purse starts building field hospital in Lenoir to help with COVID-19 Samaritanâs Purse officials say they will begin the construction of the hospital on the grounds of Caldwell UNC Health Care in Lenoir on Friday, Jan. 1. (Source: WBTV) By WBTV Web Staff | December 31, 2020 at 3:40 PM EST - Updated January 1 at 6:28 PM
LENOIR, N.C. (WBTV) - A 30-bed emergency field hospital is being built to provide COVID-19 care support for western North Carolina as the pandemic has worsened this winter.
Samaritanâs Purse officials said they would begin the construction of the hospital on the grounds of Caldwell UNC Health Care in Lenoir on Friday, Jan. 1. Just after 9:30 a.m., the trucks began to arrive at the site.