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Andrea Boissevain '78
Andrea Boissevain '78 said she's been bone-tired.
As Director of Health for the Town of Stratford, she is helping lead the town's local response to the pandemic. Through her multidimensional role, she is key in implementing strategic health objectives and linking residents to needed care and resources.
"Although we have trained for years for just this kind of a public health emergency, it looks easier on paper than it does in the field," she said. "We survived H1N1 quite handily, but this one is different."
Boissevain's daily work includes distributing PPE to partners like the Stratford Visiting Nurses Association, home care agencies—agencies and the workers who are on the front line. She also said she is regularly monitoring data to help guide the town's response.
"Data is our lifeline and guides strategies, so we’ve been collecting, analyzing and reporting out the impact of COVID-19 on our residents, following up with contact tracing, providing education to households to isolate those who are ill and quarantining other household members," she said. "As we enter a phase where we want to reopen and lift stay-at-home directives, we will be boots-on-the-ground, all-hands-on-deck contact tracing."
Boissevain said the compassion and dedication of her colleagues and fellow Stratford residents is incredibly heartening.
"There are so many people who want to help, whether it’s donating food or making cloth masks. We have a formal volunteer organization, the Stratford-Trumbull-Monroe Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) with medical and non-medical volunteers who have been deployed to assist with testing sites and provide staffing for assisted living facilities suffering from a shortage of healthcare workers. In addition, our MRC volunteers regularly assist with distributing food from the CT Food Bank’s mobile food pantry. Our fearless MRC Coordinator and Health Educator, Kelley Meier, recently reconfigured the operation to be a 'drive-through' distribution—adapting to the new normal and exercising safe work practices for recipients and volunteers alike."
As local health departments often work quietly behind the scenes with little fanfare, we at Hopkins thank you, Andrea, for your work in helping to keep people safe, healthy and informed.
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As Director of Health for the Town of Stratford, she is helping lead the town's local response to the pandemic. Through her multidimensional role, she is key in implementing strategic health objectives and linking residents to needed care and resources.
"Although we have trained for years for just this kind of a public health emergency, it looks easier on paper than it does in the field," she said. "We survived H1N1 quite handily, but this one is different."
Boissevain's daily work includes distributing PPE to partners like the Stratford Visiting Nurses Association, home care agencies—agencies and the workers who are on the front line. She also said she is regularly monitoring data to help guide the town's response.
"Data is our lifeline and guides strategies, so we’ve been collecting, analyzing and reporting out the impact of COVID-19 on our residents, following up with contact tracing, providing education to households to isolate those who are ill and quarantining other household members," she said. "As we enter a phase where we want to reopen and lift stay-at-home directives, we will be boots-on-the-ground, all-hands-on-deck contact tracing."
Boissevain said the compassion and dedication of her colleagues and fellow Stratford residents is incredibly heartening.
"There are so many people who want to help, whether it’s donating food or making cloth masks. We have a formal volunteer organization, the Stratford-Trumbull-Monroe Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) with medical and non-medical volunteers who have been deployed to assist with testing sites and provide staffing for assisted living facilities suffering from a shortage of healthcare workers. In addition, our MRC volunteers regularly assist with distributing food from the CT Food Bank’s mobile food pantry. Our fearless MRC Coordinator and Health Educator, Kelley Meier, recently reconfigured the operation to be a 'drive-through' distribution—adapting to the new normal and exercising safe work practices for recipients and volunteers alike."
As local health departments often work quietly behind the scenes with little fanfare, we at Hopkins thank you, Andrea, for your work in helping to keep people safe, healthy and informed.
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