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DAILY BREAKING NEWS The Many Lives of Calamity Jane. 4 May 27, 2020 WINDY CITY TIMES Rush Community Based Practices, said that it took just under two weeks between initial con- versations about how to handle the pandemic to opening dedicated facilities for patients. “The reason for even that delay was just get- ting an infrastructure in place,” Orlin explained. “Then overnight, we got the word: ‘We’re going to get going’ and people started showing up the next day.’” Orlin’s work largely focuses on patients who are experiencing homelessness. She was redeployed to a COVID facility at A Safe Haven, a housing organization, which was operated by Rush and Chicago Department of Public Health. “The patients were coming from all over Chi- cago,” she said. “…People experiencing home- lessness are generally a very marginalized, very underserved population and have a multitude of Tony Amberg (center). unmet healthcare needs, way beyond the virus, Photo courtesy of Northwestern Memorial Hospital that they’re coming in with.” Erik McIntosh. Media reports about health personnel focus in Photo courtesy of Rush University Medical large partresidual trauma for nurses, physicians Group COVID-19 and other staff working with COVID patients. Or- lin, McIntosh and Amberg all acknowledged the hits, we really come together as a team.” intensity of the work, but said that the nimble- Orlin said the experience allowed her “the LGBT nursing personnel ness and endurance of healthcare workers are sig- unique opportunity to help create a system that nificant parts of the pandemic’s legacy. helps people who really can use it.” “I think this really is a story of resilience,” Healthcare providers will remain vigilant for fu- discuss pandemic said Amberg. He primarily provides mental-health ture waves of coronavirus transmissions, Amberg support for patients in non-psychiatric hospital said. units. As the pandemic came to the fore, his full- “It looks to me that about 1.1 percent of Cook experiences time job became mental-health support for the County and Chicago has already tested positive, BY MATT SIMONETTE Both McIntosh and Amberg said that each staff itself. He leads them in breathing exercises which if you think about it, is an enormous num- of their hospital staffs underwent massive and before shifts, for example, to help them stay fo- ber,” he explained. “It seems that, at this mo- Thousands of healthcare professionals in Chicago, rapid restructurings as the patient loads began cused and grounded as they see patients. ment, in every 100 people, there is more than many of them members of the city’s LGBT com- to increase. Amberg said that his entire hospital McIntosh admitted feeling “emboldened” by one person already known to be positive. If we munity, have been thrown into the frontlines of essentially became an enormous COVID-19 ward. the cooperation and dedication he saw amongst play that out, that means that there are a lot of America’s struggle to contain the COVID-19 pan- “The degree to which they have moved around his colleagues. people out there, and that the situation is very demic. thousands of people, and the degree of change “What I have confidence in was the resilience ripe for explosion.” According to Tony Amberg, a psychiatric nurse that they’ve managed, has been extraordinary,” and resolve of the entire medical team—physi- McIntosh said, “It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ but practitioner at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, he added. cians, physical therapists and even our environ- ‘when.’” healthcare providers have had to struggle with Katherine Orlin, an RN clinical manager with mental services team,” he said. “When a crisis the same uncertainties that the public and com- munity members have all had to struggle with: determining an effective response to a relatively out their Pride gear as June approaches. The vil- loon displays on their lawn, as well as a Pride unknown illness. Buffalo Grove lage’s 2020 Pride parade has been reformatted flag, among other paraphernalia. But theirs Service providers, public officials and commu- residents all in on as a “drive-by” event June 7 so that residents is not the only lawn to be decorated, Carolyn nity members had fallen into a “bubble,” Amberg can celebrate while still respecting social-dis- added. Many residents have signs up congratu- said, wherein medical advancements in the last Pride displays tancing guidelines. lating graduates or encouraging resolve during several decades had enabled vaccinations, treat- The anonymous note, dated May 17 and signed the pandemic. ments and cures for many illnesses. after complaint “a concerned Buffalo Grove neighbor,” read: “We just happen to have the lawn that they “We got swayed by the idea that this was a dis- BY MATT SIMONETTE “Hello and thank you for embracing the LGBTQ don’t like,” she said, admitting that, despite the ease that attacks the vulnerable, and that young and gay lifestyle, we appreciate you being part obvious careful wording, the note came “like a people were immune,” Amberg admitted. “Now A family whose activism was crucial to bring- of this community and being our good neighbor. punch in the gut, especially with the Pride Drive we see that this is so not true. It attacks people ing a Pride parade to suburban Buffalo Grove “Whereas you celebrate gay pride, we take coming up.

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