Highland Park Hospital doesn’t see many victims of gun violence. Then July 4th happened. Here’s how the day unfolded.
Pictures of the seven people killed during the Fourth of July parade shooting are displayed at a memorial in Port Clinton Square on July 11, 2022, in Highland Park.About half a dozen patients were in the emergency department of the more than 100-year-old hospital, which sits in a leafy neighborhood of the normally peaceful suburb. The 21-bed ER was staffed the same way as it would have been on any other day: five nurses, two patient care technicians and one doctor.
James Thompson, the hospital’s ED clinical nurse manager, had been about to go into a restaurant with his family when his phone beeped with the alert. He called the ER registrar to see what happened and if he was needed.Immediately, he knew he needed to go. Often, people with gunshot wounds go to hospitals that are designated as Level I trauma centers, meaning they have a certain number of services immediately available 24 hours a day. But Cooper’s injuries were so severe that he was taken to nearby Highland Park Hospital, which is a Level II trauma center, rather than spend extra time in an ambulance going to NorthShore’s Evanston Hospital, which would have been the nearest Level I trauma center.
Cooper has since undergone additional surgeries. He’s paralyzed from the waist down, and is now at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago,Cooper’s mother, Keely Roberts, has said the staff at Highland Park Hospital saved her son’s life. While Velez-Rosborough operated on Cooper, the dozens of other medical workers in the ER that day also fell back on their training to carry them through the morning and afternoon.
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