Ascension Via Christi hosted another warm sendoff Saturday for two nurses leaving to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Chicago.
Ascension Via Christi nurse Jessica Wolfe explained her reasoning for going to Chicago.
“I think it’ll be a great challenge and a great experience. And I wasn’t able to in school to do the kind of thing where you get to go to Haiti or somewhere like that. So I think this would be a good experience as well. We don’t have that many cases here yet. It’ll be nice to kind of get a taste of it,” says Wolfe.
The rarity of the experience was also a deciding factor in Wolfe’s decision. “This is not something you kind of see all the time and I’m still a new nurse,” says Wolfe.
Ascension Via Christi President Bob Copple described the urgency of the situation in Chicago. ” We have 400 staff who are out ill right now in Chicago because of COVID,” says Copple.
Copple also says Ascension Via Christi would be sending out 17 nurses from Wichita.
Copple also says the five Manhattan nurses previously sent out will be returning to Manhattan on Sunday.
