A Day in the life: A Milwaukee Healthcare experience during COVID-19
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Title
A Day in the life: A Milwaukee Healthcare experience during COVID-19
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected many aspects of our daily life. One such aspect affected, was that of healthcare seeking behavior from those who had to head to a hospital setting to seek some form of treatment or therapy from a professional at the hospital. In order to keep the very sick patients receiving in-patient treatment inside the hospital healthy, not to mention the staff coming to work, and visitors, numerous procedural changes were implemented in how the St. Luke’s hospital operated. This included restricting entrances to the hospital, mandatory masking in the building, temperature checks at the entrances, social distancing, and physical barriers at reception areas. This collection illustrates first, a typical patient experience in seeking treatment at St Luke’s in Milwaukee, as well as the changes both in person, and online, that the pandemic brought upon people seeking treatment at St. Luke’s, as well as guidance released by the hospital of how to keep yourself healthy when you are visiting the hospital and in general. The overarching theme of this collection is illustrating what the patient experience looks like over a day at St. Luke’s and how they might encounter and experience the various changes that the hospital implemented to keep people healthy in the COVID-19 pandemic. The physical, in-hospital pictures are joined by images of various pieces of guidance put out by the hospital regarding best practices for COVID prevention, announcing the availability of testing at the hospital campus, as well as their new limited visitor policy. This was a restriction on the number of visitors that could visit in-patient relatives, as well as a restriction on who could accompany patients in for outpatient treatment. The online pictures are to attempt to highlight what the average patient, or visitor to St. Luke’s might have searched for in preparation for a visit to the hospital in this age of COVID-19.
Creator
Michael Reno
Date
May 2nd, 2021
Contributor
Michael Reno
Collection Items
Closed Hospital Entrance
This is possibly what an individual would see when they arrive at St. Luke’s and go to enter the hospital. This revolving door was closed off to create a funnel for visitors, and workers entering the building, to direct them past the COVID screening…
Getting Screened at St. Luke's COVID station
One of the most notable change that the pandemic has brought about for patients seeing healthcare professionals at St. Luke’s for treatment, as well as for those same healthcare workers getting to their jobs, is the addition of stations like these at…
Ending a Day of Seeking Healthcare in the Pandemic
This hallway marks the last stop after treatment for me/ a hypothetical patient at St. Luke’s. That in-hospital Starbuck’s opened a few years ago replacing the generic café operated by the hospital’s cafeteria staff. It marked a pleasant ending to a…
Social Distancing Signs
The Covid-19 screening station for St. Luke’s in Milwaukee. The nurses manning it would take your temperature and ask you the hospitals Covid screening questions. They would then give you a "SCREENED" card once you had gone through that signifying…
Approved Screening Card
This item is the card that St. Luke’s gives you after you have had your temperature checked, and answered their Covid screening questions at the entrance stations. Relevant and notable, because you would not be able to enter the hospital and visit a…
COVID Prevention Advice
This social media post from the official Milwaukee St. Luke's hospital back on the 17th of January, gives some guidance and advice to the public about simple steps to prevent COVID infections.
Screening Done Here
It has a very prominent position facing towards the main hallway past the check in/screening station at the entrance. It lists the process of screening that will happen at the station as well as the required steps people must adhere to when venturing…
COVID Disposable Facemask
At the start of the Pandemic, this was suddenly a required item that I had to take in with me to my appointments. While unlike some, I did not mind wearing it when I was traveling around, and walking down the halls of the hospital, it became quite…
Aurora Safe Care Promise
This post was on the hospital system for St Luke’s, Advocate Aurora. It talks about, as well as gives a link for, the comprehensive list of guidelines and practices that St Luke’s is going to be engaging in to combat the pandemic and ensure that…
Aurora Healthcare COVID-19 update
This was a notice board set up on tables throughout the waiting room for Outpatient Therapy at Aurora St. Luke's. Logically you could assume that it was posted at all waiting rooms in the hospital during the ongoing pandemic.