Steve, I was one of the front of the house managers for Oakland Kaisers COVAXX clinic at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland in Feb and March of 2021. I originally came in to support the running of the post injection waiting area. I moved into the managers role ( having leadership history there) and spent a 6 weeks in this role. We ha…
Steve, I was one of the front of the house managers for Oakland Kaisers COVAXX clinic at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland in Feb and March of 2021. I originally came in to support the running of the post injection waiting area. I moved into the managers role ( having leadership history there) and spent a 6 weeks in this role. We had a triage space set up for any adverse events. I witnessed in the waiting area fainting of at least 6 souls young and elderly, Dx'd heart block of an elderly member, fainting members with the injection nurses in this case the young man overmedicated with his anti anxiety meds before coming in. When these were brought up at our noon and am huddles with the bosses it was swept under the rug. Another sad aspect of this Planned Pandemic event was those folks I was called on to calm before their injections. Some whom I cancelled and rescheduled their first dose to give time to consider options if they were able to. I handed out a few dozen of my business cards with Highwire and FLCC on the back for their own edification. We were also doing the Pfizer trials for the Teen group and I can tell you every single child I saw was afraid. There was actually one who was high fiving people in line but he was an outlier. The only group of employees there who questioned the mainstream narrative were the support staffing as in MA's and LVN's though they were all eventually pressured by KP as Gail knows to take it. They did not want to and that was about a dozen or so folks I had conversations with. BTW alot of our staffing was temps who came from Canada and Back East. The rest were back filled with us and anyone wanting OT, so we had RN's in supporting roles as flag bearers leading members from the injection nurses to the either side of the waiting areas ( 15 and 30 minute spaces) and those that needed to see a Doctor for a wellness check. We pinned color coded labels on them to let the flag bearer and others know where to send them.. In one sense it was incredibly well run overall. Boom Box was rolling and in our huddles the focus was on keeping everyones spirits up and reminding them that they were doing a great service by protecting themselves and their loved ones. I could not do that speech to my charges. If you want to talk more on this I would not mind speaking about this experience. Lastly, I was also apart of KP's Contact tracing before it was called this where we monitored all staff who was "exposed" to a COVID pt. I concur with Gail that the Hospital was a ghost town. Our daily campus wide briefing on census was never "Full" In fact I know staff-colleagues who worked the COVID floor and the biggest issues early on were no PPE. We all were handed a Brown bag and told to place our level II masks in there after day was over to reuse...if not soiled ( hmmm) then use a second or third day! I wish I was writing something for the "Onion" News... sadly not. Gail has my contact info if you want to get in touch to corroborate Kaiser and their role in the corruption of medicine.
thanks for sharing, we had the brown bags too, but initially were told no N-95's, not sure if that was part of the scare tactics...no one would ever answer, where did they all go?
Steve, I was one of the front of the house managers for Oakland Kaisers COVAXX clinic at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Oakland in Feb and March of 2021. I originally came in to support the running of the post injection waiting area. I moved into the managers role ( having leadership history there) and spent a 6 weeks in this role. We had a triage space set up for any adverse events. I witnessed in the waiting area fainting of at least 6 souls young and elderly, Dx'd heart block of an elderly member, fainting members with the injection nurses in this case the young man overmedicated with his anti anxiety meds before coming in. When these were brought up at our noon and am huddles with the bosses it was swept under the rug. Another sad aspect of this Planned Pandemic event was those folks I was called on to calm before their injections. Some whom I cancelled and rescheduled their first dose to give time to consider options if they were able to. I handed out a few dozen of my business cards with Highwire and FLCC on the back for their own edification. We were also doing the Pfizer trials for the Teen group and I can tell you every single child I saw was afraid. There was actually one who was high fiving people in line but he was an outlier. The only group of employees there who questioned the mainstream narrative were the support staffing as in MA's and LVN's though they were all eventually pressured by KP as Gail knows to take it. They did not want to and that was about a dozen or so folks I had conversations with. BTW alot of our staffing was temps who came from Canada and Back East. The rest were back filled with us and anyone wanting OT, so we had RN's in supporting roles as flag bearers leading members from the injection nurses to the either side of the waiting areas ( 15 and 30 minute spaces) and those that needed to see a Doctor for a wellness check. We pinned color coded labels on them to let the flag bearer and others know where to send them.. In one sense it was incredibly well run overall. Boom Box was rolling and in our huddles the focus was on keeping everyones spirits up and reminding them that they were doing a great service by protecting themselves and their loved ones. I could not do that speech to my charges. If you want to talk more on this I would not mind speaking about this experience. Lastly, I was also apart of KP's Contact tracing before it was called this where we monitored all staff who was "exposed" to a COVID pt. I concur with Gail that the Hospital was a ghost town. Our daily campus wide briefing on census was never "Full" In fact I know staff-colleagues who worked the COVID floor and the biggest issues early on were no PPE. We all were handed a Brown bag and told to place our level II masks in there after day was over to reuse...if not soiled ( hmmm) then use a second or third day! I wish I was writing something for the "Onion" News... sadly not. Gail has my contact info if you want to get in touch to corroborate Kaiser and their role in the corruption of medicine.
thanks for sharing, we had the brown bags too, but initially were told no N-95's, not sure if that was part of the scare tactics...no one would ever answer, where did they all go?