by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
If you get the pleasure of walking by Rich- ard “Ricky” Donovan in the hallway of the hospital, he will speak to you. A simple hello, at the least, can brighten anyone’s day. Ricky is an environmental service worker for the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. He makes sure...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
In patient after patient, the COVID-19 virus attacks your lungs. You may have heard that it contributes to pneumonia or COVID pneumonia. The virus causes inflammation in the lungs. With inflamed lungs comes fluid. The organ usually filled with air begins to fill with...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
Dr. Troy Miller, the director of hospital medicine at Van- derbilt Bedford Hospital, researched through evidence from hospitals in cities that were already hit by the pan- demic. He knew it was coming to his hospital soon and wanted to be prepared to care for the...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
January 1, 2021, was the first day in more than 250 days that Donya Neal got to take a day off as an Infection Control Practitioner at the Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital. Since mid-April 2020, she had worked seven days a week for more than eight months straight. Donya’s...
by Wesley Bryant | Jun 1, 2021 | Feature
Cathy Purcell is a certified nursing assistant, or CNA, in Shelbyville. She lives in Unionville, just a quick 17-minute drive up the road from the hospital. She lives on the same road as her mother, step-dad, aunt, uncle, and daughter—a place she has called home her...
