May 2010

Clothes cupboard opens to patients in need

Sometimes, patients are rushed to the hospital with their sole possessions—the clothes on their backs. In order to treat emergency and trauma patients quickly, their clothes are typically cut and removed. “They are working frantically to save people, not clothes, so they cut their clothes off,” says Sandi Shelnutt, MSW, LCSW, social work supervisor. “But […] Read more