We Need to Remain Conscientious: Week of November 30th, 2020

Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends, 

I hope everyone had a safe and restful Thanksgiving and stayed close to home during the holiday.

I wanted take the opportunity to welcome those few who are returning to campus and to remind you, especially if you decided to travel and see family and friends who have not been part of your normal “bubble”, to ensure you are taking all the appropriate precautions upon returning to campus. If you traveled outside PA, you should have taken it upon yourself to get tested prior to returning or quarantining if you didn’t get tested. If you don’t feel well, even if you think it’s only a cold, don’t come to campus. If it persists, please check with your primary care manager or use the Jefferson Health link to determine if you need to be tested.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Matt Morett and the Metz Culinary team on campus for providing Thanksgiving meals to almost 75 students who decided to remain locally during the holiday. I know our students really appreciated the effort, especially since they decided not to travel and couldn’t spend the holiday with their families.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, given the unsurpassed spread of the virus, we need everyone to be extremely conscientious about following the guidelines in our Salus Safety Strategy. Wear your face mask over your nose and mouth at all times while on campus and when around others not in your immediate bubbles off campus, wash your hands frequently, continue to socially distance and if you’re not feeling well, stay home.

As you know, we only have a few weeks until Winter Break and we need to ensure we do everything possible to keep our Salus Community healthy and safe as we navigate through this timeframe. While a vaccine is already being pre-staged around the country, most of us will not be the first to receive it. The end to all this is coming, but we have to exercise patience and not let our guard down now. We’re so close and we’ve done so well - let’s not let complacency change that.

Stay safe, stay Salus Strong!

Mike