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How COVID-19 Changed the Game for Hospitals

May 1, 2020 – Senior producer Matt Grubs talks to executives from hospitals in Las Cruces and Portales. Both Mountain View Regional Medical Center and Roosevelt General Hospital are still waiting for a surge of COVID-19 cases, while acknowledging that stay-at-home orders have flattened disease curves. But the coronavirus has changed how both facilities prepare for pandemics going forward. 

Correspondent:
Matt Grubs 

Guests: 
Derrick Cuenca, CEO, Mountain View Regional Medical Center
Kaye Green, CEO, Roosevelt General Hospital 

Frontline

This story is part of a collaboration with FRONTLINE, the PBS series, through its Local Journalism Initiative, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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