KCUR: 5 Years of COVID: What One Kansas City Nurse Saw on the Front Lines of the Pandemic

Carrie Willis, a clinical nurse manager with Saint Luke's, ran a COVID unit at Saint Luke’s East Hospital in 2020 and 2021. Five years after Kansas City began restricting gatherings and ordering people to stay at home, Willis is revisiting this time she says changed health care—and her life—forever.

Willis sat down with KCUR to share her story. Read the full article here: 5 Years of COVID: What One Kansas City Nurse Saw on the Front Lines of the Pandemic, or listen to the whole podcast segment here.

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