Operaton Workplace
Ask VNSNY: What Do You Enjoy Most About Being Back in the Office? #12 in the Series
December 10, 2020–Here’s this week’s back-to-the-office feature: An inside look at how Operation Workplace is going. It’s now been almost three months since a number of VNSNY staff returned to our 220 East 42nd Street office on either a full- or part-time basis. In this new video series, “Ask VNSNY” host Amery Moultry asks different staff members what they like most about being back in the physical workspace. This week, Amery puts that question to Clinical Education Manager, Laudz Cheriel-Burke. Click on the link below to hear what she said! To watch more ASK VNSNY Videos about returning to the office, click here.
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Top 10 Reasons Why VNSNY Is Switching to Zoom as Its Video-Conferencing Platform
August 27, 2020–In mid-March, as COVID-19 engulfed the New York area, VNSNY shifted practically overnight to a largely virtual operation, using a variety of applications for its virtual meetings. In August, after five months of testing different applications, VNSNY will be switching to Zoom as its virtual meeting solution. Zoom has been selected as the virtual meeting application of choice to be used across the organization as well as for virtual visits with patients in several of the clinical areas. The addition of Zoom is about getting ready for a post-COVID world, according to Brent Flack-Davison, Vice President, Strategy, Performance, and Innovation. “No one knows what our workplaces will look like in the immediate future,” says Brent, “but we want VNSNY to be as prepared as possible. One key to this is having a flexible, easy-to-use video conferencing platform. Flexibility is especially important for virtual visits, which are still evolving across the
Ask VNSNY: What Are Your Thoughts on Being Back in the Office?
August 3, 2020–Temperature checks in the lobby… socially distanced work stations… directional arrows on the carpet. In this episode of “Ask VNSNY,” host Amery Moultry, Director, Enterprise Communications, highlights the changes that greeted staff members when they returned to our 220 East 42nd Street office last week, and asks employees what it’s like to be back. To hear what they said, click on the video below!
10 Important Safety Measures for When Staff Return to 220 East 42nd Street on July 27
July 21, 2020–This Monday, July 27th, approximately 150 staff members will return to work at our 220 East 42nd Street office in Stage One of Operation Workplace. When they do, they can be confident that VNSNY and the building management have taken extensive steps to keep the office safe. Here are 10 important safety measures that have been put in place at 220: Home health screenings before work Each morning before heading off to work at 220, all Stage One employees will be required to take a self-assessment checklist of potential COVID-19 symptoms. If a potential symptom is noted, that employee will stay home that day. Lobby temperature checks and social distancing on the 220 East 42nd Street elevators Everyone entering the 220 East 42nd Street lobby and the East 41st Street Partners in Care lobby will have their temperature checked. Anyone who has a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher will