Rona Tsantinis-Roy says doctors suggested her father might have survived if he’d been transferred to a larger hospital. Typically, that’s what happens when a patient at a community hospital needs more specialized care. But with hospitals full or nearly full across the state, transfers are harder and harder to arrange. Some patients are dying while they wait.
Athens Pizza owner Antonios “Tony” Tsantinis died Dec. 10 after contracting COVID-19. His family remembered him by feeding Brimfield one final time Friday.