“Up until this time, we had two facilities in this city well equipped to care for COVID-19 prospective and positive patients. Our teams are very well prepared to protect, isolate and utilize appropriate PPE [personal protection equipment] to make sure other patients and babies are kept safe,” White said. “This is really in the spirit more of being able to utilize the space we’re going to vacate for further expansion of COVID care at Holston Valley and less about separating our moms and babies. It’s more about creating capacity.”