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A historic moment: respiratory therapist Tina Schubert became our first employee to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
In anticipation of the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, we are training nurses, nursing assistants, clinical techs and others to administer them.
We are preparing to serve as a central storage facility for the region's supply of Pfizer vaccine. Partnering with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), we will distribute the vaccine to health systems and long-term care facilities in the region.
Today, UW Health opened a new indoor drive-thru testing facility on the east side of Madison at 3819 John Wall Drive. UW Health has made a long-term commitment to the site as a convenience for patients who regularly express satisfaction with drive-thru testing options for flu shots and COVID-19 tests.
Take a look at life inside our COVID units. Three nurses and a respiratory therapist share their perspective on the reality our front line heroes face every day.
Wisconsin, we love you. Many of us grew up here, others chose to live here. We all work to serve you. We will do anything we can to take care of you. You are our neighbors and our family. Sometimes you have to have hard conversations with family.
The staff of F6/5 general internal medicine, otherwise known as the "COVID unit" as of March 2020, transformed to provide care to patients suspected of, or confirmed to have COVID-19.
UW Health nurses led the sea change that saw inpatient video telehealth visits go from zero in mid-March to about 80 a day by early April.
Emergency department (ED) care team leader Sue Wolfe, BSN, RN initiated and led an effort to raise money for the Dane County Food Pantry Network. What started out as an idea ended in completely eclipsing the goal she sought.
UW Health's Black/African American Employee Resource Group first met in January 2020, shortly before the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial inequity swept the world. The idea was to create a support network at UW Health, where the nursing workforce is about 96 percent white.
