gift of life
SUMMER 2020
GIFT OF LIFE TRANSPLANT HOUSE A HOME THAT HELPS AND HEALS
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Resiliency During a Pandemic
How Our Guests Turned Fear to Gratitude It wasn’t until Governor Walz issued Executive Order 20-04 on March 16, closing all restaurants and bars that I first noticed an uneasy anxiety settle over Gift of Life Transplant House. The Governor had issued an Executive Order closing schools in Minnesota two days before, but we had all assumed this was a temporary measure to protect our state’s children. Now the anxiety seeped into the house like a cold draft. It wasn’t just concern I saw on our faces – I now saw fear. Our priority remained the safety and security of our
immunocompromised guests and the reassurance for their caregivers that we would do all we could. So we developed four objectives: • To keep Gift of Life Transplant House open • To alleviate the stress and anxiety as much as possible for our guests and caregivers • To stop coronavirus at the front doors • To continue to employ our staff Working closely with our board, we made the determination that we would remain open even if only one guest and caregiver remained. As Mayo Clinic set in motion their plan to protect their patients, we