Difference Makers: COVID NURSES

For the past nine months, nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and critical care managers across the Inland Northwest have been fighting a disease they still know very little about.

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Sun., Dec. 27, 2020

Terry Fisher, a vascular access coordinator with the Department of Veterans Affairs, poses for a photo Tuesday in one of the hallways she circulates daily with a cart carrying vascular access equipment she uses to diagnose patients at Mann-Grandstaff VAMC in Spokane.

Tyler Tjomsland The Spokesman-Review
Kootenai Health critical care nurse Michele Goode is photographed in Coeur d’Alene on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.

Kathy Plonka The Spokesman-Review
Todd Putren Director of Emergency Services at MultiCare Health poses for a photo on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, at MultiCare in Spokane Valley, Wash.

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Kootenai Health respiratory therapist Erica Mazzarella is photographed in Coeur d’Alene on Wed. Dec, 23, 2020.

Kathy Plonka
Bailee Walters, a nurse manager at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, is photographed in front of the hospital Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Walters is part of the Difference Makers series.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Revi