Collected Item: “Wichita's Healthcare Heroes”
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Wichita's Healthcare Heroes
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Photograph
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This banner honors the work performed by the doctors, nurses, and staff of the west Wichita Wesley Medical Center Emergency Room at 13th and Tyler Road. Signs like these proved fairly common across the city, therefore adding to the wide variety of expressions of gratitude displayed across the world for those in the medical professions who have dealt with COVID-19's harsh reality. Nonetheless, at the time this photograph was taken, Sedgwick County announced that its hospital space and ICU availability was beginning to encounter greater stress, as COVID-19 cases surged across the state, with many patients from rural areas lacking direct access to medical facilities being brought to Wichita-area hospitals for treatment.
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Aaron Peterka
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2020-07-09