The nurses, Stephanee Petersen and T.A. Peterson, work for Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospice Compassus.
Twice a week, the nurses have been traveling through floodwaters to reach a hospice patient on Campbell’s Island, which sits in the Mississippi River in Illinois. Some days, the trip can take up to three-and-a-half hours.
“These patients need us. We can’t have the floodwaters keep us from doing [our] job,” Ms. Peterson told WQAD News 8. “This is the time when they need us the most.”
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