How one man became medical safety net for hundreds

Pamela Grant’s health insurance plan consists of one man working out of a single room at the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky. It’s better by far than what she had last year, she said Tuesday night. Last year she had nothing at all. If not for the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky’s resident nurse-practitioner, Brian Lawson, she might not have known she had developed walking pneumonia until it had become far more serious.