Las Vegas nurse cared for others until the end

Vincent De Jesus devoted his life to caring for others, whether it was his mother or his patients at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he worked as a registered nurse. His self less nature was on display until the end of his life. After contracting COVID-19, one of his biggest concerns was the health of his mother.

“He was on his deathbed terrified that he gave my mom COVID, which he didn’t,” his sister Crystal Alvarado said.

De Jesus died Aug. 15 at the same hospital where he helped so many others after battling the coronavirus since lateJuly. Hewas39.

Alvarado said she wanted people to remember her brother’ s kindness.

“He didn’t care who you were, what you did, what you look like, what your political party was,” she said. “He just wanted to make sure you were healthy and happy. He never judged you. He could meet you for the first time and treat you like his best friend, and I think we as a country have forgotten that .”

De Jesus became his mother’s primary caretaker after his father died in 2010.

When he was working during the pandemic, he’d wash his clothes and shower immediately after he got home, his sister said. He would stay on a different floor of the house he shared with his mom so as not to potentially expose her to the virus.

“He wanted to make sure she never got it,” Alvarado said.

Alvarado says he tries to emulate his loving spirit. In situations now, she said she asks herself, “What would Vincentdo?”

“He was that person that didn’t see anything but a human that he wanted to care for,” she said.

COURTESY OF CRYSTAL ALVARADO Vincent De Jesus, a 39-year-old registered nurse, is pictured with his mother, Madeleine De Jesus. Vincent died Aug. 15 of COVID-19 at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he worked.