Houston Safety Net Hospitals Treat The Most Vulnerable Patients For COVID-19. Heres What It's Like – Houston Public Media
December 24, 2020, 11:16 AM) a Health care workers at LBJ Hospital, a safety net hospital in Houston. From left are Janie Espinoza, 35; Shibu Jacob, 43; Dawn Purvis, 52; Carma Jones, 56; Gissele Diaz, 32; and Lakisha Comeaux, 48, all of whom work in the hospital’s COVID-19 unit. This story is part of Houston Public Media’s ongoing coronavirus coverage. . When Houston's LBJ Hospital received its first COVID-19 patient on March 15, that person was immediately transported to Unit 3A, which for the first two-and-a-half months of the year was an intermediate care unit. That night, it bec...