Page 7 - 2020 annual report

“The outpouring of support from our community, such as donations of PPE, food, thoughtful messages, along with support from our own Hospital, as well as what the Brand & Strategy team would put together to show support and awareness really helped staff feel heard, validated, and cared about.”
BILL TAVARES, RN | Emergency Department | Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, MA
The community fortifies #SouthcoastFrontlines
Southcoast Health Trustee Dr. Jay Schachne, a recently retired cardiologist, made it his mission to keep frontline staff safe while they treated patients for COVID-19.
Dr. Schachne is among the countless heroes in an inspiring community response who helped keep Southcoast staff protected and their spirits bolstered during the worst of the pandemic.
“This is a time when nurses, doctors, and other staff are concerned about their own health. They go to work every day fearing for their lives and terrified of infecting family and loved ones on top of having to isolate themselves. In this crisis, we have an obligation to protect them in the workplace.”
With personal protective equipment (PPE) scarce and costly, Dr. Schachne and others reached out to boatyards, auto body shops, and other businesses whose workers use N95 masks, protective suits and gloves on the job.
Safe Harbor Cove Haven, in Barrington, RI, donated one thousand masks. “Everyone needs to pull together and do what we can at a time like this,” says Rebecca LeBlanc, Safe Harbor’s vice president of partnerships and sponsorships.
“I think many of us forget how important human touch and connection is — especially during all of this isolation, our patients come to us needing human contact.”
MICHELLE EATON, RN | Emergency Department | Tobey Hospital, Wareham, MA
LEFT TO RIGHT: Meredith Mattson-Days, RN, Rochelle Borges, RN, Renee Gonsalves, RN, Alison Bilodeau-Medeiros, RN, Surgery Center, Dartmouth, MA
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