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Photo gallery: UMMC and the rise of COVID-19

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View a gallery of photos taken by photographers from University of Mississippi Medical Center Communications showing a behind-the-scenes look at the recent rise of COVID-19 cases inside the state’s largest medical center.

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  • Infectious diseases nurse practitioner Spencer Brooks puts on personal protective equipment before checking on a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Children’s of Mississippi.
  • From left, Samaritan’s Purse nurse Angela Schear, UMMC medical technologist Jennifer Casey, Samaritan’s Purse nurses Teresa Pritchett and Gina LaFountain, and UMMC medical technologist Leanna Walters prepare for the opening of a 32-bed field hospital August 18 in Parking Garage C.
  • Taylor Sisson, business administrator for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, distributes COVID vaccination stickers to the department’s faculty and residents August 11. The stickers signify the wearer is vaccinated.
  • Pediatric critical care assistant professor Dr. Laura Wright-Sexton leads rounds inside the intensive care unit at Children’s of Mississippi.
  • Registered nurses Haley Williams, left, and Abagael Mathis, center, sanitize their PPE shields after checking on a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Children’s of Mississippi.
  • Dr. Andy Wilhelm, division chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, walks past a row of Samaritan’s Purse field hospital tents set up in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • Nancy Smith with the Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Assistance Response Team stocks supplies at the field hospital operated by Samaritan’s Purse in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • Hospital beds line the walls inside the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • From left, J.T. Berrinson and Billy Lewis, members of Colonial Heights Baptist Church, assist Samaritan’s Purse team members in setting up a field hospital at UMMC.
  • UMMC clinical informatics pharmacist J.P. Stokes preps for the opening of the pharmacy tent inside the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • Registered nurse Emily Alpers gathers nursing scrubs for use in the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • Dr. Elliot Tenpenny, director of Samaritan’s Purse’s international health unit, gives Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor of health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, a tour of the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in UMMC’s Parking Garage C.
  • Registered nurse Abagael Mathis checks on a COVID-19 patient in the pediatric intensive care at Children’s of Mississippi.
  • Raelene Jarvis of Oregon, a health care provider with the National Disaster Medical System team, tries out the computer system in the field hospital devoted to COVID-19 patients that opened August 13 in Parking Garage B.
  • A row of beds for low-acuity COVID-19 patients is part of a field hospital that opened August 12 in Parking Garage B.
  • Ronald Turner puts sheets on a hospital bed before the opening of a COVID-19 field hospital August 12 in UMMC’s Parking Garage B.
  • Registered nurse Maria Wilson prepares to go into a room in an area inside the UMMC Emergency Department devoted to COVID-19 patients.
  • Phlebotomist Deanna Baber sanitizes her PPE while working in a UMMC Emergency Department space devoted to COVID-19 patients.
  • UMMC Emergency Department technician Abby Oliver takes the temperatures of patients waiting to be treated and admitted.
  • Medical assistant Banca Wallace administers a COVID-19 test to anesthesiology resident Dr. Kelsie Huffman.
  • Registered nurse Helen Ann Campbell checks on Keelyn Green, a Jackson high-schooler recovering at Children’s of Mississippi from a serious bout with COVID-19.
  • Reid Rankin, RN, cleans a visor outside a COVID-19 patient room on 2 North.
  • COVID-19 patient rooms can be identified by the supply of PPE hanging from their door.
  • Registered nurse Matt Harris cleans his protective visor after leaving a COVID-19 patient’s bedside in the medical ICU.
  • Registered nurse Steve Donnell helps a care team move a COVID-19 patient into a new bed in the medical intensive care unit.
  • Medical ICU registered nurses Matt Harris, center, and Steve Donnell, right, join a team preparing to move a COVID-positive patient into a new bed August 11.
  • Matt Harris, RN, on the Medical ICU.
  • Signs of the times are seen on the door to Employee and Student Health on the UMMC campus.
  • Registered nurse Elizabeth Sullivan places her photo on a fifth-floor bulletin board in the Batson Tower at Children’s of Mississippi. The board shows the floor’s care team without their face masks to patients and families.
  • Registered Nurse Taylor Curtis cares for patient Avery Mitchell in the PICU of the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Towers at Children’s of Mississippi.

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