Throughout the pandemic, we’ve relied not just on the medical providers based at our local hospitals, but also traveling nurses who move from place to place, filling in wherever help is needed. One such nurse, Grover Nicodemus Street, is a military veteran based in Colorado. So far during the pandemic, …
Read More »Central Valley ICU Nurses On The Toll Of Treating COVID-19 Patients
Now that vaccines have become more widely available, it’s easy to forget that ICUs are still full of COVID-19 patients fighting for their lives alongside battle-weary nurses who have been deep in the trenches of this pandemic for nearly a year. To learn more about the toll it has taken, …
Read More »Fresno ICU Nurse Reflects On Nine Months Of Treating COVID Patients
Amy Arlund, a registered nurse who works in the ICU at Kaiser Fresno Medical Center, spoke with Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock in May about the loss of one of her colleagues to COVID-19. With ICU capacities in the Valley now at the breaking point, Schock checked back in with …
Read More »Digital Doctor Visits: treating patients through Telepsychiatry
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, experts are sharing a service used to treat psychiatric patients without having them step into their office. It’s known as ‘telepsychiatry’. Teresa sardina reports on how telepsychiatry is helping people in the valley get treatment while feeling confident and safe."We treat all the …
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