Greenwood Leflore Hospital is honoring a nurse who died last month from COVID-19 by naming the nursing station where she worked after her.
On Tuesday, the hospital board approved the recommendation of the medical staff to name the nursing station on the fifth-floor medical surgical unit the “Mrs. Dorothy Banks Boles, LPN Nursing Station.”
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Boles, 65, died April 3 at the hospital from the respiratory disease.
Of the 22 deaths in Leflore County from COVID-19, she is the only hospital employee to die.
Her passing was a major focus in the third episode, released last week, of an ongoing series of podcasts by APM Reports on the impact of the coronavirus in the Mississippi Delta.
Boles had worked at the hospital for 41 years.
One of her three children, Marcus Banks, is Greenwood’s fire chief and serves on the hospital board.
“I know she’s looking down and she’s happy,” Banks said. “The hospital was her life.”
He said his mother convinced him in 2018 to accept appointment to the hospital board, even though his initial reaction was to turn down the offer.
“I’m glad Mom talked me into it,” he said. “I plan to continue to serve and make decisions that are in the best interest of the hospital and my community and honor her with my service.”
