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Doctors Hospital in Sarasota reflecting on the year since treating first COVID patient Doctors Hospital remembering past year dealing with COVID pandemic. (Source: WWSB) By Rick Adams | February 26, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST - Updated February 26 at 5:21 PM SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Staff and leadership at Doctors Hospital in Sarasota are reflecting on Friday what the past year has been like being on the front lines dealing with the pandemic. ”There has been a lot of trying times for all of us,” said Rachel Herc, an ICU nurse at Doctors Hospital. “Some very sad times, some very uplifting...

COVID-19 one year later: Tears, long nights, and finally, optimism in Florida Kimberly Kuizon reports SARASOTA, Fla. - One year ago, it was something we'd heard about and worried about. But it took the first case for reality to set in. "The fear of the unknown was major," recalled registered nurse Jamie Florio. "This thing came out of nowhere. And took us all by surprise," agreed Dr. Michael Schandorf-Lartey.  "Our patient had been in the hospital for five or six days with acute respiratory illness with no unknown ideology," explained Dr. Schandorf-Lartey.  A test confirmed COVID-19.  Adve...

Doctor's Hospital of Sarasota staff remembers the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the state of Florida.

Dr. Manuel Gordillo had been tracking the spread of the coronavirus beyond China and knew to be on alert when he visited Doctors Hospital of Sarasota in late February 2020 before encountering a patient who had been very sick for a week with pneumonia. Gordillo wanted to test the patient for COVID-19, but at the time testing was extremely limited and controlled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only allowed it for patients with a suspicious travel history. Gordillo’s patient hadn’t traveled outside Florida. But the testing guidelines were rapidly evolving, and late one e...

Progressive Care Unit Nurse Jamie Florio was nervous when she first heard that Doctors Hospital had a patient with COVID-19 under her care.  She had just returned to work after maternity leave.  “I was certainly scared with my baby at home,” Florio said. “Everyone has people at home, so we were all nervous. We weren’t expecting anything to come back positive. Everything was changing … so for me, and I’m sure other nurses, the fear of the unknown was major.”   That was a year ago.  Then and now When Florida's first case of COVID-19 was found at Doctors Hospital in Sarasota, t...