When it was suggested that we write a blog and share our personal experiences with the Pandemic it caused me to pause, because I could really write from many perspectives! I have the Nurse leader perspective, I have my mother perspective, I have my daughter perspective, I have the friend/family
This article is part of the Beebe Stories: In Their Own Words series. Additional stories can be found online at: https://www.beebehealthcare.org/health-hub/community . Courtney Philllips, RT(R), is the lead radiologic technologist at Beebe’s Margaret H. Rollins Lewes Campus. She has been working at
If you are working from home with kids in the house, then you can easily picture the everyday scene: Up early with kids – one of which usually has an immediate need. Perhaps today they need an immediate glass of water or perhaps they dreamed that all their dinosaurs had been stolen and we need to
The shocking rush of masses of shoppers into the supermarkets in coastal Delaware around St. Patrick’s Day weekend made me take a hard look at how I was going to do my food shopping. The fear of COVID-19 had set in for me a few days earlier after hearing scary warnings from my friend’s daughter-in
The Cape Gazette published an article April 7 on the unique #CrushCorona initiative. Kathleen Schell and Justin Healy of Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s challenged the community to purchase restaurant gift cards in increments of $25 or more and donate them to Beebe Medical Foundation for distribution to
My husband, Preston, and I enjoy walking together. Typically we log about two miles with each outing. A few weeks ago, however, we were only a couple of blocks from our house when I felt a little short of breath. I didn't think much of it and simply returned home. The next day we headed out for
At the beginning of this pandemic, Beebe Healthcare joined the rest of the world in halting our work and preparing ourselves for the expected surge of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Many people had their elective procedures postponed for safety reasons and in order to conserve personal protective
This article is part of the Beebe Stories: In Their Own Words series. Additional stories can be found online at: https://www.beebehealthcare.org/health-hub/community . Anne Villalobos, RN, normally works in the noninvasive cardiology lab at Beebe’s Margaret H. Rollins Lewes Campus. There, she
This is part of our series: Beebe Stories: In Their Own Words Cindy Betts started her career as a certified nursing assistant, then became a licensed professional nurse, before completing her RN degree. She is now an RN, OCN with Beebe’s Oncology Services team at Tunnell Cancer Center where she
Gracias. Mèsi. Thank you. It’s the simple words I both heard and said over and over during my visits to Beebe’s four COVID-19 testing sites in Georgetown during the end of April and first week of May. This tremendous multi-day event could not have been accomplished without our many partners: First