IS & RESO caregivers,
Happy New Year! I hope you all had some time to relax and reflect over the holidays. Was great to see over 1,500 caregivers across our organizations join together to have some fun socializing, playing games, sharing music, and giving kids time with Santa over Teams on our December 10 virtual IS & RESO Christmas Party.
I hope you also saw the video with Sister Susanne, Santa, and me reflecting on your tremendous efforts over 2020, and wishing you and your loved ones a merry Christmas.
We’ll have a chance to look back on the incredible progress we made in our journey to simplify, modernize and innovate in the past year, as well as share our 2021 priorities when we gather for Open Forum, tomorrow, Thursday, January 7.
It’s exciting to hear from our caregivers who have begun receiving their vaccinations. We know it has been a long haul to get to this point and can feel proud of how we helped our system lead the way through every stage of this pandemic and now lead where other systems are struggling in vaccine rollout to our caregivers. System leadership and the national media have taken notice of our VAV (validate and verify) tool, which IS helped quickly build, test, and deploy. This Azure-based tool has already helped more than half our 120,000 caregivers across seven states receive their first dose of vaccination.
Speaking of brighter horizons, in case you’re wondering, that photo of me is one of my final flights with an instructor, before I solo later this month and obtain my pilot license.
Let’s keep looking over the horizon, focusing on how we prepare for the future of Providence and our Mission, and how we can keep challenging ourselves and developing, both as a team and personally in 2021.
Thank you for all your do. Look forward to connecting on tomorrow’s IS & RESO Open Forum and our always-lively discussion.
-BJ