Nurse's Week is May 6-12. I thought I would share some of my nursing collection. This is a Florence Nightingale doll with a copy of the book Florence wrote about nursing. I feel that Flo was the original occupational health nurse because she cared for workers - soldiers in the Crimean War.
Join us in welcoming Rachel Stotz to the OHC Operations Team. She will be working to support Nancy, Paul and Nicole in multiple ways – including billing, payroll, auditing, website maintenance and OHC social media presence. Rachel has worked for many years as a librarian and brings her organizational skills to the table. She will help Nicole to update some of our forms and processes. You will start to see her name or hear from her and we are very excited to have her join our team. Rachel enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and all things Dolly Parton. She lives in Austin, [...]
Paul and I dropped off 8 boxes of medical supplies to join many other boxes. These are being shipped to Canada then flown to Poland and then will be transported to Ukraine. Our prayers and thoughts for the people of Ukraine and for peace.
Just because the surge is going down - please keep vaccinating. This is the Moderna team - EMT Paul Weinburgh and OHC nurses: Maria Danna, Shauna Arapoff and Sandy Guilfoyle. Thanks team!
We are so excited to have some nursing students from U Mass Boston join OHC. Students, Sophia Baldino and Taylor Le, are helping with fit testing at area hospitals: MGH, Melrose Wakefield and BI Plymouth. This is a great way for the students to learn new skills, build their resume and network. So happy to introduce a new generation of nurses to occupational health!
Dana Farber is keeping its patients and staff safe by offering the Covid vaccine booster. OHC nurses Shauna Arapoff and Judy Wu have been staffing the Dana Farber booster clinics.
OHC Family is growing again! Introducing Megan MacDonald RN newest addition: Malcolm Trott. 10/17/21 8lbs 22in Congratulations Megan!
Covid numbers are going down but they are not gone. OHC nurse, Alison O'Neil, is working a free Covid testing site in Lynn. Please continue to protect yourself and your loved ones!
The Covid nurse repose team for Moderna acts a resource for all things Covid - questions on exposures, symptoms, testing and vaccines. Here are 2 of this super star team of nurses: Sydney Knoll and Maria Danna. Thank you Nurse Response Team for being Rock Stars!
We are proud to accept 2 awards from Bread & Roses. Grocery Card Hero for donating Market Basket grocery cards that were distributed at Thanksgiving and a Partner Appreciation Award for our donations to their food pantry and box dinners to go. OHC has been a supporter of Bread & Roses, a soup kitchen in Lawrence, MA for 17 years. We helped set up and supply a medical clinic as well as support their food pantry. We had been cooking and serving meals prior to the pandemic and look forward to when they are open again. Please check out this amazing [...]
