This small Texas hospital is finding ways to save COVID-19 patients
LA TimesBefore the doctor unzipped his COVID unit’s plastic curtain, he grabbed a laminated photo from a hook labeled “Faces Behind the Mask.” He draped the ribbon holding the photo over his protective suit so patients could see who he was: Dr. Joseph Varon, 58, bald and trim with intense blue eyes. No time for anything else other than COVID-19.” “This,” he said, “is what I’m meant to do.” As chief of staff and chief of critical care services at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Varon and his small team of nurses and medical student volunteers have treated COVID-19 patients with surprising success. “I don’t know what place in the U.S. knows more about COVID than this little hospital — the treatment and the social issues,” Varon said. He said an ambulance dispatcher had refused transport, telling him, “We will not take you to the hospital unless you are gasping on the floor and turning purple.” Anita Pandey, right, chief nursing officer for the hospital’s COVID unit, wheels newly arrived patient Eliazar Angel Rodriguez from the ER with Alan Araiza, left, the medical student volunteer running the unit.
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