The COVID-19 battlefront at Lake Martin Community Hospital received reinforcements from its sisters at Ivy Creek Hospice.
Karmen Leavins and Megan Price normally work at Ivy Creek Hospice but now they are helping on the coronavirus front lines. Their current roles in hospice mainly keeps them in the office, but when Lake Martin Community Hospital started to admit COVID-19 patients, they volunteered to help.
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