- Well, good afternoon and welcome to today's
CEO COVID-19 update.
Today is January 22, 2021.
And today we want to talk about some important topics.
And the first is a new tool that's available for you
that talks about some of the feelings that
individuals who've had COVID-19 have expressed
around being isolated and stigmatized
because they unfortunately came down with the disease.
You know, this disease
is a equal opportunity employer.
And nine times out of 10, nobody did anything wrong.
The virus was just in sufficient quantities
that an individual came down with it.
As a team of BAYADA employees,
we know that we live the BAYADA way and that we approach
all of our colleagues with dignity and respect
and work with a sense of universal faith, hope, and love.
And so that's what good looks like.
That's when we're at our best,
when an individual, through,
as I say, no fault of their own becomes sick
and how we support them through that illness
and then welcome them back to the team.
Words matter, behaviors matter,
reaching out and touching a colleague
who when they go through COVID-19
almost always report feeling somewhat isolated and alone.
And so we want to be able to
provide a resource for you
to help you through those conversations
because the likelihood that
one of your colleagues becomes ill
or one of your clients or a family member,
and how you approach that and find the right words,
we think is important.
We wanted you to have that tool
and understand ways that you can help us
counteract that stigma and make sure that everyone feels
the true sense of love that we have for each other.
Lots more to come on this,
but the start of tools and dialogue
around decreasing that fear and making sure that
we use science and then our BAYADA way
to help us walk those individuals
through their suffering and to recovery.
And then as we always do,
want to talk and switch to gratitude.
Recently, we were approached by,
there was a cancellation
for another group to run a vaccine clinic clinic,
and as we know, we want no vaccine to go to waste.
And so we quickly were asked to see
if we couldn't perform a clinic and
through the creativity, ingenuity,
and just darn hard work,
group of volunteers stood up a clinic
in probably less than a week actually,
and got everybody registered
and successfully vaccinated 511 individuals.
The majority of those are field clinicians
and office employees who now will have the second vaccine
on the 16th and add that
to their safety protocol so that they don't
come down with COVID-19 and don't transmit it.
We're obviously debriefing from this.
It happened real time this week
and we're looking for opportunities to do this
in other areas as we're presented with those opportunities.
But again, want big shout out to all the team
that made this happen to the 511
who came and made themselves available to get vaccinated.
And this is as we've talked before,
the light at the end of the tunnel
to get us to crush this vaccine.
So please, thanks for all you do.
Keep caring for our clients safely,
keep caring for each other.
We'll be back next week, stay safe.