It was relatively quiet the morning of July Fourth at Highland Park Hospital.
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.
That all changed within a few hours, after a gunman fired to the town’s Fourth of July parade, killing seven and injuring dozens.
