Inside the ICU: An exclusive look inside Bonner General Health's intensive care unit

The intensive care unit is a place nobody wants to end up. It's a place where they fight for their lives as they battle COVID-19. That's what's happening inside the sterile, quiet and desolate environment inside the ICU at Bonner General in Sandpoint, Idaho. 4 News Now reporter Elenee Dao went to Bonner General Health and Hospital to hear from the health care workers who have been on the frontlines since the start of the pandemic. Sandpoint is a beautiful town that about 7,000 people call home. Bonner General is a small hospital with only 25 critical care beds. That includes four ICU beds. It's been mostly full for the last few months and now is operating at crisis standards of care  (CSC). At Bonner General Health, operating under CSC means there are longer wait times in the emergency room, team nursing has been activated, where more patients are cared for at a time with one emergency room nurse and another nurse from another department in a team. For the medical workers who have been on the frontlines since the beginning of the pandemic, it's hard. MORE: https://bit.ly/3ACXmpi