Spotlight on Sharon Holmes
With four marathons under her belt, including the New York City Marathon in 2006, Director of Infection Prevention and Control Sharon Holmes is well-versed in what it takes to go the distance.
With four marathons under her belt, including the New York City Marathon in 2006, Director of Infection Prevention and Control Sharon Holmes is well-versed in what it takes to go the distance.
In March 2020, she would unexpectedly begin her fifth endurance race – the COVID-19 marathon.
It was the preparation on the frontend, the support of those around her and staying the course that made the difference in this race.
"As we started to hear about the virus in Wuhan, China, in those months before, we began writing SBARs to address the 'what if' scenarios," Sharon explained. "So having it on our radar was essential to us acting as quickly and as nimbly as we could."
While on vacation with her family skiing in New Mexico, news broke that commercial COVID testing was being released and Sharon knew it was time to start this next race. Heading back a day early from vacation, the Incident Command Center came together, where Sharon would be a fixture from day one. "I had an idea in my head of how it was going to go," she recalled, "but there was no way to predict that a year later we would still be working to solve this."