Archive for May 2020
Friendly Faces in New Spaces
During COVID-19, a great number of CHAS Health staff found both their workplaces and roles transformed. With nonessential services suspended and many office visits converted to telephone or virtual visits,…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Community Generosity
During the pandemic, we have received a heartening number of donations of individually wrapped food for employees serving in our clinics and tents, face masks for staff and patients, and…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and New Staff Roles
During COVID-19, a great number of CHAS Health staff had to quickly shift to doing their work differently or doing completely different work! The impact was especially great on our…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Patient Calls
One of the challenges of being a Call Center Representative at a healthcare organization, even when it isn’t a crisis, is that you often don’t get to circle back with…
Read MoreWorking the Tent during COVID-19
During the COVID-19 Crisis, many of our employees were moved from working inside their regular clinic location, to helping in our screening tents outside of our primary care clinics. Here…
Read MoreGumby and COVID-19 Part 2
Yesterday I shared with you about the historic flexibility of CHAS Health workers, which we celebrate with a yearly Gumby Award. Not only have a huge number of our employees…
Read MoreGumby and COVID-19 Part 1
The COVID-19 crisis has required the unbelievably flexible employees of CHAS Health to extend themselves even more than usual. Did you know that at CHAS, we have a Gumby Award? …
Read MoreTreating COVID, Grieving COVID
She may be wearing a surgical mask, but there is a person behind that mask who is dealing with the reality of the pandemic just like the rest of us.…
Read MoreHealth Access during COVID-19
When businesses had to close their doors due to COVID-19, people lost their jobs and wages. In health care, we see the impact job loss has on patients who suddenly…
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