![]() ![]() Martin Luther King Jr community hospital. She recounted a mother and son who ended up dying in the same ICU room weeks apart. “With this new surge, we’re finding the patients are much sicker, and it’s not clear why,” said Anahiz Correa, the ICU nurse manager. Outside the building, there are five triage tents for intake. Patients are treated in the waiting room and doubled up in spaces meant for one. The chapel around the corner is filled with gurneys. MLKCH has put beds in an old gift shop, which has a small sign on the door indicating “patient care in progress”. Some days, it is treating nearly double the number of patients for which it normally has capacity. He said nearly half did not survive the ICU: “We try and stave off complications, but there’s nothing I can do to reverse the course of the virus.”Īt times in recent weeks, the small 131-bed community hospital has seen proportionally more Covid patients than any of the nearly 50 other hospitals in the LA area. On the other side of the door, a line of patients lay on gurneys in a narrow hallway, with doctors passing by in enclosed air-purifying helmets. “The horror stories are countless,” Dr Jason Prasso, an intensive care unit doctor, told the Guardian on a recent morning while on a break inside an ICU office. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images All rights reserved.Kennoka Williamson, a registered nurse, attends to patients in a Covid-19 triage area set up in a field hospital tent outside the hospital. I can’t think of even the alternatives at this point. What I hope happens is somebody finds Lex and that the police officers understand this is an autistic man, to know he’s probably scared, he probably doesn’t know what is going on, and to just try and be kind and not react with violence at the get-go. Can I come back?’ That’s not going to happen. “What I hope for right now in my perfect world, Lex will turn around and walk back to the facility and say, ‘Boy, I made a really big mistake. I think he just snapped that night,” Leslie said. That wasn’t happening as fast as he would like. He really was looking forward to getting stepped down to minimum security at some point. Lex left there because he did not want to be there. “You know, Christian, things like this don’t end well. ![]() She is holding out hope Lex returns to the hospital peacefully. If you have any information you are asked to call 9-1-1 immediately. I want to know how did this happen, and what are they going to do to prevent this from happening in the future.” “I don’t understand how my son was able to leave his sleeping area, not only get out of his locked building, but then to walk out of a facility that has 15-foot fences topped with razor wire and guards. That just led him to the main area, where he then either had to climb over a 15-foot wall covered in razor wire or walk out the front gate,” Leslie said. “Then, they said he hopped over a fence, as if that was the outside of the perimeter. She also said the 8-foot fence authorities said he hopped is not even the main barrier separating the hospital from the surrounding area. However, Ervin said there’s even more security than what can be seen from the outside. When looking at pictures and videos of the hospital, it’s clear there are several layers of security, including what appears to be at least one guard tower. Outside of each building, outside each door, is a cage with a padlock on it, so if you happen to get out through a locked door, there’s another level of security there.” “First of all, there’s a level of security there. They’re referred to as patients, not prisoners, but there’s so much security,” Leslie said. I have to go through security checks and many locked doors before I can get to him with two guards with me before I can get to a place where we can meet. ![]()
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