'Match made in heaven': A health care system hired unemployed people to work mass vaccination site
Updated: 8:34 AM PDT Apr 6, 2021
Morgan Lentes
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Updated: 8:34 AM PDT Apr 6, 2021
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TALKED TO WERE OUT OF WORK FOR MONTHS. SO THEY SAY LANDING THESE NEW JOBS WERE A BIG RELIEF, BUT ALSO GAVE THEM A NEW SENSE OF PURPOSE. I AM THE MASTER IMMUNIZATION. I’M PATIENT ACCESS MANAGER AND I AM ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE THAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU COMING THROUGH THE DOOR CURLY ANTHONY IS PROUD OF HER NEW TITLE YOUR FIRST SHOT. YES EXCITED ABOUT THAT. LAST OCTOBER. SHE LOST HER JOB DOING CONTRACT WORK FOR THE VA WHEN SHE STARTED HER NEW JOB SEARCH A LOT OF THE JOBS WERE NOT IN OUR AREA. MASS VACCINATION SITES WERE STILL A FAR-OFF DREAM, YOU KNOW IF THE UNKNOWN NOT KNOWING WHEN WILL BE BACK TO SOME TYPE OF NORMALCY AT THAT TIME NOT EVEN. HAVING THE VACCINATION IT SOMETIMES YOU JUST WANT TO LIE IN BED AND JUST SAY OKAY. THERE’S SO MUCH EASIER JUST TO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT, BUT I MEAN THAT’S THAT’S NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN LET YOURSELF DO. THERE COULD RELATE TO THAT. HOLDER IN HE LOST JOB LAST MARCH AND STRUGGLED TO FIND SOMETHING NEW AS VETERAN. YOU JOINED THE JOIN THE MILITARY TO SERVE THE COUNTRY AND SO A LOT OF WAYS. I FEEL LIKE I’M GIVING BACK NOW NOW HE AND ANTHONY THE VACCINATION THEY ARE TWO OF 54 EMPLOYEES HIRED BY THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO STAFF THE CONVENTION CENTER. THE MAJORITY WERE UNEMPLOYED AND MANY CAME FROM HARD HIT INDUSTRIES, LIKE HOSPITALITY AND ENTERTAINMENT ECONOLINES WITH WHAT I WAS DOING WITH VETERANS, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT OUR NATION HEROES HAD THEIR CARE THAT THEY NEED SO THIS, YOU KNOW CONVERTING OVER TO THIS IT IS A PASSION OF MINE. SO I’M JUST GLAD TO BE DOING IT. AND THEY ARE PUTTING THOSE EMPLOYEES TO WORK. THEY’RE GOING TO BE STAYING LATE TONIGHT THE CONVENTION CENTER USUALLY STOPS VACCINATIONS AT 5 PM, BUT THEY’RE ACTUALLY GOING TO STAY OPEN UNTIL 8:00 TONIGHT AND THE IDEA IS TO HOPEFULLY ENCOURAGE MORE WORKING PEOPLE AND ALSO