Frontline doctors matched with RVs to self-isolate

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Talking through a window with her young children in tow, Emily Phillips is on the outside looking in at her husband, Jason.

He's an emergency room doctor self-quarantined inside this RV at their home near Dallas, Texas.

And now -- Phillips is determined to help other families going through the same situation.

It's called RVs 4 MDs -- an organization she co-founded with a complete stranger, in an act born out of pure generosity.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) EMILY PHILLIPS, CO-FOUNDER OF RVS 4 MDS AND WIFE OF EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN DR. JASON PHILLIPS, SAYING:

"My husband is an ER (emergency room) physician and when it was time for us to quarantine, I got really nervous because I was worried about what he could be bringing home and exposing my family. I have a six-month-old baby boy, 5-year-old little girl and an 8-year-old son who has asthma and I have asthma."

Phillips says she was scared to live in her own house knowing her husband was potentially at risk.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) EMILY PHILLIPS, CO-FOUNDER OF RVS 4 MDS AND WIFE OF EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN DR. JASON PHILLIPS, SAYING:

"So I made a post and I said, 'Does anybody have an RV that I could rent so that my husband could stay on the property but be separated from my family and I?' And within five minutes, a friend of mine called and said, 'My friend Holly Haggard wants to give you her RV.' And I just couldn't believe it. I was flabbergasted that somebody would give me their home; they didn't even know me."

Within days, RVs 4 MDs was born, as Phillips and Haggard teamed up to match owners of RVs with medical workers.

Kalpana Astras, wife of Dr. Nick Astras, says her family was one of those lucky recipients.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) KALPANA ASTRAS, THE OF PHYSICIAN WORKING WITH COVID-19 PATIENTS, SAYING:

"It was a pleasant shock that there are still good people in this world and people who are not in the field, not in the front line, not in our house seeing what we're going through, that they're still so sympathetic of us and coming through like that."

Astras says she is immensely grateful to the RVs 4 MDs volunteers, especially the man who donated his RV to her family, Bud Conway, who she now considers a friend.

As for Conway, he says one day- he hopes the Astras get to take his RV on a real family vacation.