A 2007 graduate from Monmouth-Roseville High School, Jesus Rosales, is currently a Resident Physician at St. Louis University Hospital in his first year of residency training for Family Medicine. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Rosales says there is tension in the air among physicians and nurses:
“With our cases continuing to increase as we move along, at first they had to close down just a wing of the hospital to accommodate these increasing cases of COVID. Then it was kind of the whole floor and then our family medicine team had to create another team of residents just to come in and take care of these extra COVID patients because there was just so many. We of course have had deaths from these cases as well, so it definitely creates tension and stress. Everybody is very supportive and shows up to work and gives it their all,” Rosales shares.
Rosales states they are okay for now on their Personal Protective Equipment supply. A one mask per person per day has been implemented to assist with use of supplies. Teams have also been assembled to limit the number of staff coming in contact with COVID patients.
