COVID-19 patients at Hamilton General Hospital (HGH) in recent months — happily said goodbye to physicians and staff on Wednesday after several months in an intensive care unit (ICU).“The care Mike has received is beyond anything I have ever experienced,” says Mike VanNetten’s wife, Sarah, in a release.“The healthcare team takes care of their patients, but they address the care of their loved ones as well.
They are angels in scrubs.” When a ventilator isn’t enough: Why younger COVID-19 patients can need artificial lungs VanNetten was admitted to HGH on April 13 after he was airlifted from Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington following a two-day stint on a ventilator with severe cold-like symptoms.VanNetten was given one of the most extreme.