ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - It was certainly a birthday celebration to remember for this south St. Louis County hospital patient. On his 68th birthday, he was sent home after sending three weeks at Mercy Hospital South due to a COVID-19 infection.
Bill, preferring only to be identified by his first name, was greeted by his wife and family at the door after dozens of hospital employees sang him "Happy Birthday."
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Mercy South calls in a “Code Sunshine” which allows co-workers to celebrate with COVID-19 patients as they leave the hospital.
Bill was on a ventilator in ICU for two weeks due to coronavirus. Ironically, the day he was admitted to the hospital was his daughter’s birthday, April 2.