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Newton recently appointed three newly elected members to its Board of Directors:
Annie Greene, Eric Boecher and
Gloria
Greene, a
Newton native, joins the Board of Directors after 10 years of involvement at the Y s residential camp, Camp Frank A. Day. She attended Frank A. Day as a camper and then spent four years as a counselor. In 2018, she spoke about her camp experience at the Y s A Night Under the Stars fundraising gala. She is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently working as a nanny while attending nursing school. She is the daughter of the late Frederick Greene, who served on the Y s Board of Directors and is remembered as a tireless community advocate.
Look closely, through the face shield, over the mask. You’ll see it.
“Walk around the hospital, you can see the fatigue in people’s eyes,” said Dr. Roy Werner, director of the emergency department at Roseland Community Hospital on the Far South Side. “We have an entire staff of physicians, nurses, tech staff, housekeepers, working harder than they have ever had to work.”
Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, with a vaccine tantalizingly near but still not in hand, the relentlessness of fighting the virus the endless stream of patients, the round-the-clock shifts, the deaths, the need to plug holes in the schedule created by sick colleagues is grinding down hospital workers.
CHICAGO (WLS) Rush University Medical Center s main lobby has been transformed into a COVID-19 vaccination center. Within 24 hours of the vaccine s arrival, the goal is to begin the process of inoculating the hospital s 12,000 employees. Not only do we have to figure out how to get so many people through, we have to make sure it s happening in a socially distanced manner and safe, said Lisa Weichman Harries, with Rush University Medical Center.
Ten individual vaccination bays are lined up down a long hallway. Appointments will take between 5-7 minutes each. While the vaccination is not mandatory, Rush said most of their employees are willing to take the vaccine. They will be divided in five tiers and then split into two groups.
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