Crisis-trained Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (BG-RRT) chaplains are offering care at a Samaritan's Purse field hospital that opened January 7 in Lenoir, North Carolina. The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the region's medical infrastructure, and hospitals are over capacity.
This 30-bed Emergency Field Hospital is a needed help as health care systems continue the fight against coronavirus.
The Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital, specialized as a respiratory care unit, is helping relieve the burden from five local health care systems.