“ What a blessing that I can help and
Now that we had PPE, we needed to retrain our entire clinical staff immediately on proper donning and doffing to limit the spread of infection. At the same time, we quickly established COVID-19 infection control policies for our staff when interacting with our patients and families. We created new visitation guidelines for our nine centers for caring. Visitors would be required to wear a face mask and gown while on the unit and follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines.
do what I love. ” - Community Volunteer
PPE was also in short supply for the general public, so we sent a communication to our 1,000-person volunteer army to ask if they would be willing to sew masks and gowns to help.
Our compassionate volunteers personally purchased fabric and supplies and made hundreds of masks and gowns within just a few short weeks. These handmade treasures took the burden of sourcing PPE off the shoulders of our families, allowing them, in some instances, to say their final goodbyes in this unsettling new world we found ourselves in.
Everything about COVID-19 was a mystery, but we knew we urgently needed an effective and timely solution to test our staff for COVID-19 to limit the spread of infection in the event of exposure.
2020 Report to Our Community
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