Dear All,
We developed the approach below to match volunteer opportunities with the needs of our hospital system and our local public health strategies driven by the burden of disease - refining the tiers as the situation changes. We are currently in Tier 1 as social distancing is critical to our context at this time. The group managing this includes a faculty member lead, students from each class, our director of service learning, associate dean and director for student affairs, and our dean for strategic relations. All decisions on tiering and when we shift from one tier to another are vetted through the senior associate dean for education, associate dean for student Affairs, and the Quinnipiac University COVID-19 Task Force.
I – no risk – from home
M1, M2, M3, M4
Creating cards/posters/videos of encouragement
Call center staffing from home
Call center staffing if proper social distancing is guaranteed
Check in calls to particularly vulnerable patients and/or to staff who were exposed – M3's
FISH of greater New haven – delivering groceries
Hamden Mobile Food Pantry – Dunbar Hill School – pack and distribute groceries
Town of East Haven – senior meal delivery
Mindful Responder – yoga therapy
Additional grocery delivery needs
Mask making
II - low risk and minimal human contact
M1, M2, M3, M4
Call center staffing / phone call triage
*St. Mary's / Trinity Health System – urgent need – algorithm based – in non-clinical
area of the hospital
*St. Mary's Telehealth (on FaceTime?) suggested but students are not allowed to give medical advice (can triage?) -
Support Occ Health service calls on COVID-19 – M4's
Check in calls to particularly vulnerable patients and/or to staff who were exposed – M3's
Errands for caregivers or extended families, such as grocery shopping, pharmacy etc
Dog walking and/or pet care
Blood bank donations: American Red Cross
'R Kids Family Center – transporting meals to families and sanitizing toys
III – potential for human contact (this will change to higher tier as the number of COVID-19 positive patients increase in our community)
M1, M2, M3, M4
Childcare
Child care needs of "mission-critical on-site" staff during COVID-19 outbreak
YNHHS and the greater medical community are responding to the rapidly evolving child care needs of employees in mission-critical roles whose work requires them to be on-site at a YNHHS, Yale Medicine or Yale Health facility during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Meal preparation
Essential transportation needs for family members
UW: Downtown evening soup kitchen: preparing food, distributing food, washing dishes
IV – non-clinical but in hospital or office setting
M1, M2, M3, M4
Staff support in non-clinical dept of hospital or office practice (eg, information desk)
Duties usually performed by hospital volunteers
V – clinical and direct human contact
M3 and M4
Thermal imaging of hospital or office entrants
Screening questions at hospital entry,
IV's, blood draws etc
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Lyuba Konopasek
Senior Associate Dean for Education
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac
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