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Title
MEDIA | Home Health Care News: Home health provider feeling COVID-19 heat: 'We are not the first, we are the fire department.'
Date
04/02/2020
Article

On Friday, Feb. 28, just after 10 p.m. PT, Brent Korte — chief home care officer at EvergreenHealth — got a call that changed everything. It was from his boss.

“She asked me if I was sitting down,” Korte said. “She told me that EvergreenHealth not only had patients who had tested positive for COVID-19, … but that a patient passed away in our hospital. This was the first death from COVID-19 in the United States.”

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