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North Memorial medical staff marks one-year anniversary of COVID

As new COVID-19 infections decline in Minnesota, North Memorial Health Hospital shut down entire units, including the South 6 Intensive Care Unit and the West Seven Med-Surg unit. As of Wednesday afternoon, March 17, the hospital had only four COVID-positive patients, with none in its ICUs.

By Aaron Lavinsky

January 20, 2021 at 3:26PM
The now-vacant West Seven Med-Surg unit, which a few months ago, was filled with seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
The desk at the now-vacant South 6 Intensive Care Unit at North Memorial.
An Empty bed in the now-vacant South 6 Intensive Care Unit.
A board, which usually has names of patients and the nurses assigned to them, was blank in the now-vacant South 6 Intensive Care Unit.
Joe Walker, a critical care nurse with North Memorial Health Hospital, looked over a photo collage commemorating a year of COVID-19 in North Memorial's South 7 ICU on Wednesday.
From left, Critical Care nurses Meghan Lund, Amy Peterson and Ethan Pilger listened to nurse manager Lori Wildman as she made a speech as the South 7 ICU marked a year of COVID-19 within its walls.
North Memorial South 7 ICU nurse manager Lori Wildman gave a speech to healthcare workers as they marked one year of COVID-19 within the unit walls Wednesday afternoon
North Memorial critical care nurse Meghan Lund read a thank-you note written by nurse manager Lori Wildman Wednesday as the South 7 ICU commemorated a year of COVID-19 within its walls.
The now-vacant South 6 Intensive Care Unit at North Memorial Health Hospital.
An Empty bed in the now-vacant South 6 Intensive Care Unit.
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Aaron Lavinsky is a staff photographer for the Minnesota Star Tribune covering news, sports and everything in between. He joined the visuals staff in 2014.

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