Chapter Twenty-One
“Shhhhh!” Nurse Williams said.
“What? The hospital’s going to be closed?” the patient in the first bed called out.
“The hospital is closing?” the man in the bed next to him asked.
Within minutes, every patient who was awake was talking about the imminent closure of the hospital—some even going so far as to try to get up to leave.
“Stop! Stop!” the doctor called out. “This hospital is not closing! The building is being sold, but the hospital will not close. Now calm down everyone!” He turned and glared at the nurses as he said the last bit.
They looked duly reprimanded.
Ellen pulled Nurse Williams aside. “Did your brother tell you who the current owner of the building was? Maybe I can speak with him.”
She just shook her head. “No, he was simply to write up the pap
