Sep 4, 2020
Heroes on the front lines
During Emergency Preparedness Month, Coverage thanks health care workers who are battling a global pandemic
September is Emergency Preparedness Month, and in Massachusetts, our health care providers have been confronting an emergency like no other, the battle against the coronavirus.
They are struggling to treat a disease with no known treatment, one to which no human has natural immunity.
At Coverage, we thank Massachusetts doctors, nurses, NPs, PAs and other hospital workers.
And for the past several months, we have been giving them a chance to speak to you, our readers, in their own words. We asked that they share their simplest, most urgent lessons and messages as they face this new virus with no vaccine and no cure, a virus vulnerable only to our common human bravery, ingenuity and compassion.
Read some of their full messages:
Labina Shrestha
Operations manager of environmental services
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Raghuveer Rakasi
Hospital Medicine
Baystate Medical Center
Maggie Beiser
NP, co-supervising Boston Health Care
for the Homeless' isolation tent program
Dr. Narayana Lebaka
Chief of hospital medicine
Baystate Noble Hospital
Chelsea Lawrence
PA - Emergency Department
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham
Dr. Regan Marsh
Emergency physician
Brigham’s and Women's emergency department
Kelly Young
Director of Environmental Services and Patient Transportation
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Robert Elloyan
Assistant nurse manager,
medical intensive unit and cardiac care unit, Boston Medical Center