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Nurses Christine Lowen, left, and Mandy Moncada, right, take a look at a computer screen inside the Intensive Care Unit. Around the main desk, 12 fully-enclosed, negative-pressure rooms each house a patient that can be monitored from this desk. Despite the pressure of a full ICU, there are also a thousand little reminders of Christmas throughout the hospital, such as these gingerbread houses.

Nurses Christine Lowen, left, and Mandy Moncada, right, take a look at a computer screen inside the Intensive Care Unit. Around the main desk, 12 fully-enclosed, negative-pressure rooms each house a patient that can be monitored from this desk. Despite the pressure of a full ICU, there are also a thousand little reminders of Christmas throughout the hospital, such as these gingerbread houses.

December 14, 2020

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Inside an intensive care unit: Largest local hospital braces as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise
December 14, 2020 1 a.m.

Inside an intensive care unit: Largest local hospital braces as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise

MOSES LAKE — Nine months into a global pandemic, Samaritan Hospital is facing possibly the largest surge of coronavirus hospitalizations and juggling patients with other crowded hospitals.