Northwest Health Porter Hospital nurses are among many of the Region's health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Bob Kasarda LIBERTY TOWNSHIP â A late January ice and snow storm was not enough to keep nurse Marianne Ashby from showing up at 5 a.m. to kick off another day of COVID-19 testing from a camper set up outside the emergency department at Northwest Health Porter Hospital. "It's gratifying, you get to help the community," the Ogden Dunes resident said. Ashby is among many of the Region's health care providers, who have spent much of the past year on the front lines working tirelessly and selflessly in the ever-growing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.