1 dead after 2 men enter Banner Estrella Medical Center with gunshot wounds Katelyn Keenehan, Arizona Republic
One man died and another is hospitalized after a shooting in Phoenix late Wednesday night.
The Phoenix Police Department responded to Banner Estrella Medical Center near 91st Avenue and Thomas Road around 11:50 p.m. after 31-year-old Richard Delgado and a 29-year-old man entered with serious gunshot wounds, according to police.
Delgado died at the hospital shortly after as a result of his wounds.
Rural hospitals and Western Arizona are seeing big increases, according to the latest federal numbers. Author: 12 News Updated: 3:45 PM MST December 23, 2020
PHOENIX Rural and western Arizona hospitals are bearing a heavier load of COVID patients than they have been, according to a 12 News analysis of the latest U.S. Health and Human Services data for every hospital in the state.
The data is a week-by-week look of average patient loads by each hospital in the country. Hospitals in Arizona s major urban centers Phoenix and Tucson have seen massive rises in average COVID-19 patient loads. Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix, for instance, went from an average of 39.6 COVID patients the week of November 6 to an average of 125.1 the week of December 11.
Life as a medical interpreter on the frontlines against COVID-19
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This Aug. 25, 2018, photo shows beds and other equipment being assembled in an ICU room in the Lee County Medical Center in Pennington Gap, Va. Virginia s westernmost county had appeared to be on track to reopen its only hospital, a rare accomplishment a rural community anywhere in the country. But questions involving the company expected to run the Lee County facility have thrown the plan into question at the last minute. (AP Photo/Earl Neikirk)
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PHOENIX â Medical interpreters work side by the side with the doctors and nurses trying to save people from the pandemic.