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(Tribune News Service) — Three days a week, Buffy greets visitors at the entrance to  Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. If they grant permission, she sniffs their feet seeking a whiff of active COVID-19 infection. Few decline the offer when they see the yellow Labrador retriever with a wagging tail. People generally don’t love going to a hospital, said CEO  Robert Meade, but, “Who doesn’t love labs?” Buffy was trained by  Southeastern Guide Dogs as part of a four-dog pilot program for scent detection.  Southeastern Guide Dogs has for years trained the service animals and provid...

COVID-19-sniffing dog on staff at Florida hospital Buffy the yellow Labrador retriever detects visitors with the coronavirus at Doctor’s Hospital of Sarasota.     Buffy lays down next to the "scent wheel," a tool used by Southeastern Guide Dogs to train her in scent detection. The canisters contain inactivated coronavirus samples. [ Courtesy of Doctors Hospital of Sarasota ] Updated 5 hours ago Three days a week, Buffy greets visitors at the entrance to Doctors Hospital of Sarasota. If they grant permission, she sniffs their feet seeking a whiff of active COVID-19 infection. Few de...

Meet Buffy! Doctors Hospital of Sarasota using yellow Labrador to help screen for COVID-19 Staff Report © Mike Lang, Sarasota Herald-Tribune During a demonstration for the media on Wednesday, Buffy lies down at the feet of a volunteer who had a deactivated sample of COVID-19. Doctors Hospital of Sarasota showed off its latest tool for screening visitors for COVID-19. Meet Buffy, a 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever from Southeastern Guide Dogs. Laska Parrow, a trainer from Southeastern Guide Dogs, began training Buffy in July and has been at Doctors Hospital since the e...

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...

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...