Posted on 04/14/2020 8:51:08 PM PDT by Morgana
MINNEAPOLIS — When the Coronavirus pandemic asked a lot of us to change what we were doing, Sarah Stoesz, the CEO and president of Planned Parenthood North Central States, said her organization was up for the challenge.
"We were born into controversy and crisis," Stoesz said. "Our organization has lived that way for over 100 years. Over 100 years, we have developed a lot of muscle that allows us to quickly adapt and to iterate."
Stoesz doesn't deny that some of their services cannot be delivered virtually.
"There will always be a need for clinicians to lay a hand on a patient and provide care that way," Stoesz said. "That will never go away of course now, because of all the rapid innovation that we've been able to do as a result of COVID-19, there are now permanent changes that we have made in the way that we are delivering care."
Innovations include fully embracing telehealth or video conferences for clinicians and patients.
"It's not something that is a new concept but in prior days, before the current era that we are living in, we would have come up with an idea, we would have thought it through and sketched it out, with models and forecasts, tested and piloted and it would have taken us a long time to get comfortable to roll it out," Stoesz said.
Now, driven by necessity, they're seeing patients with a relatively new technology if they can.
She said it's especially convenient for folks who are wanting to start a brand new birth control regimen and need a simple consult with a clinician before receiving a prescription.
To add to the convenience, Stoesz said they are just days away from rolling out curbside pick-up for whatever medication patients may need.
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drive by abortions
so what are they going to do, saline and a coat-hanger in th4e car? Distrubing
So how does that work? They spread their legs in the front seat or in the trunk?
The Evil One takes no holidays.
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