Vaccinations are on their way to North Tahoe and testing capacity is improving, but positive COVID-19 cases are higher than ever before.

On the ground with the novel coronavirus: How the disease has devastated local human bodies, changed hospitals from the inside out, and led to vastly different opinions about how we will ultimately conquer it.

Shift in Laulima redevelopment focus; hospital receives distinctions; helping our hardest-hit neighbors; more.

Episode 77 | September 29, 2020

A federal agency has stepped in to address the Tahoe Forest Hospital extended care facility’s violation of policies regarding a patient who’s been living in the ER since April.

Following our recent article Dementia Discharge, editor Juliana Demarest wants to reassure readers that while there is seemingly a lack of compassion at the top administrative level, it abounds among the extended care employees.

Illegal dementia discharge

Current litigation against the Tahoe Forest Health System for refusing to readmit a patient with dementia points to a national trend of patient dumping, as well as other protocol disobedience. The situation has resulted in a couple that's been married for 55 being physically separated for four months.

Multiple state agencies and a court have ruled against the Tahoe Forest Hospital’s refusal to readmit patient Bill Borden. The hospital is being fined each day until Borden returns to the long-term care facility.

Dead Man Walking

By all accounts, Mark Redpath should not be here right now. By all accounts, he should have died. As the one and only Tahoe Forest Hospital patient to have been on a ventilator — fighting for his life under the grip of COVID-19 — he wants you to know this thing is real, the biggest misconception out there being that it’s “just a cold.” Reporting and broadcasting by Juliana Demarest.