The chaos and the quiet: Navigating 2020 as a school nurse Ames Tribune Allison Moses was running a COVID-19 unit at the beginning of the year at MercyOne Medical Center in Des Moines. When the first COVID patient arrived at the hospital, Moses, a Huxley resident, volunteered to have her unit become the primary COVID unit at the hospital. "We had a patient suspected a couple weeks earlier in March and it went really, really well and smooth, so we decided to put them on our (cardiopulmonary) unit," Moses said. "I was excited about it — that's kind of the person I am. I like being able to take charge and being able to feel like we can accomplish the goal."