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COVID-19 struck Rochester’s homeless population in early December.
Dr. Rozalina McCoy, leader of the Mayo Clinic paramedic team, left, and paramedic Jill Ryan Schultz on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, in Rochester. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
Olmsted County made space available for people without homes to quarantine at 105 N. Broadway Ave. The city of Rochester also converted space at 200 Fourth St. SE for COVID quarantine. Before the end of the month, the community paramedic team was making regular visits to people quarantining at both locations.
Initially, the community paramedic program was a pilot program focused on treating people with chronic illness such as diabetes. However, as COVID-19 hit, some of the participating paramedics were given clearance to devote more of their workweek hours to community paramedicine. McCoy said neither the decision makers at Mayo nor the paramedics had any hesitance to provide regular checkups to homeless COVID
COVID outbreak among people facing homelessness wanes
The number of people needing quarantine in an Olmsted County shelter has dropped to two, as Rochester and Olmsted County prepare to move day and night operations 4:48 pm, Jan. 6, 2021 ×
Four rooms in Olmsted County s transitional housing at 105 N. Broadway Avenue are set aside for COVID-19 quarantining. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
A COVID-19 outbreak among local Rochester homeless residents appears to be subsiding.
“We hope we are on the tail end of this COVID outbreak amongst our homeless population, so we are working through the next steps this week,” Dave Dunn, director of Olmsted County’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority, said Wednesday.
Numerous people donate items to nonprofit to help homeless population
The Landing raised over $8,000 and accepted dozens of donations for homeless people in Rochester.
Posted: Dec 13, 2020 7:08 PM
Updated: Dec 14, 2020 7:05 AM
Posted By: Jeremy Wall
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Many people woke up early on Sunday to stop by Rochester residents Holly and Dan Fifield s home, to drop off donations for homeless people. The Fifield s are the founders and owners of The Landing, a nonprofit in Rochester that helps out homeless people. You ll hear from a lot of the folks that are experiencing homeless that they don t feel seen, explained Holly Fifield. They feel invisible, that people don t even know that they are there, and so to see this kind of response, let s them know that they are a valuable part of our community.