The Partners in Preparedness Project aims to serve a critical need in the COVID-19 response by partnering experienced mentors with key personnel in critical access hospitals and long-term care facilities across Nebraska. Mentors will draw upon years of experience in infection control, emergency planning, and response/recovery to serve as a single touch-point to facility emergency response coordinators as they navigate through their facility’s COVID-19 response. Brief, daily chats will help educate, reassure, and explore challenges and successes together.
This “request for a mentor” is available only to the one individual designated as the emergency response coordinator for their long-term care facility or critical access hospital. You may direct questions to Leslie Scofield with the Center for Preparedness Education & UNMC College of Public Health at lscofield@unmc.edu.
The project is supported by the Nebraska Health Care Foundation and the Donald E. Nielsen Foundation, as well as funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) from the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, CFDA Number 21.019.