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Dr. Laura Trujillo was asleep early Sunday morning when she got the call to go into work at Centura Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
At least five people were killed in a mass shooting at nearby Club Q, a nightclub that primarily serves the LGBTQ community.
Of the additional 19 people injured, in what police are investigating as a hate crime, seven were transported to Centura Penrose.
“Because it was the middle of the night and I was on call the 24 hours before, I was actually asleep when my partner called me,” Trujillo, a trauma surgeon at the hospital, . “I got the first call a little after midnight. That’s when the word was coming into our systems that it might be possibly more than a few patients.”
Trujillo said there’s a 30-minute grace period from the time backup hospital staff are called to when they arrived, but she said it only took her 15 to 20 minutes to get to Centura Penrose.
“By that time, it was just a few minutes after EMS and the police had dropped off the patients kind of all at once, actually,” Trujillo said. “And so, we had some in the hallway who were more stable and some in the rooms.
