$51M field hospital ready, but ‘there are not enough nurses’
“Staffing is a national and international problem,” said Richard Walker, interim chair of Emergency Medicine at UTHSC and chief executive of the CA field hospital. Walker, left, visited the site in May with Dr. Scott Strome (middle) and UT President Randy Boyd. (Submitted)
If the field hospital has to open, the region will be in a mess, Dr. Richard Walker says, and health care workers will be scarce.
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Dr. Richard Walker CA field hospital Dr. Scott Strome Steve Schwab Dr. Lynn Massingale U.S. District Judge Mark NorrisJane Roberts
Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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