Crescent Crisis Response Team Updates

An Update from the Crescent Crisis Response Team

At Crescent we're learning as we go, too. Here are some updates from the Crescent Crisis Management team that we would like to communicate to our People, your family, friends, co-workers and community.

Our Preventive Measures are Working. We will continue our efforts on Prevention to include Social Distancing Audits and Risk Mitigation. Our efforts continue to be effective. As we end our 3^rd week of prevention and mitigation efforts we have not had a positive COVID 19 case at any Crescent location. As the virus spread accelerates across the Mid-US states next week it will be critically important that we continue to follow our enhanced protocols and continue to push our teams on social distancing, implementing engineering controls and mitigating risks.

We are monitoring COVID- 19 trends in the counties where we operate and staying on top of changes and local government directives.

Implemented Social Distancing Audits to ensure compliance at all facilities – Completed at Co-pack locations. GE implementation will occur on April 6, 2020.

One of the early warning signs for COVID-19 is fever. Voluntarily participating in the temperature screening helps to protect you and those around you.

Screening and testing is performed by licensed professionals (STNAs) What do we do with your information? This is kept confidential and is only retained for record keeping.

Beginning 4/13 Crescent will have the ability to administer a rapid test for COVID-19. If your temperature is elevated and you are experiencing other symptoms, you will have the option to participate in the test. You may also opt out and be referred to your PCP for follow-up.

Crescent is making every effort to ensure the wellbeing of our People through preventative measures such as: Social distancing, Temperature screening and Sanitizing.

Let's all continue practice illness prevention and stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

HOW TO MAKE A FACE MASK

by: JoAnn Fabric - Link to PDF

Next Steps: If you need insurance coverage.

If you do not have Crescent Benefits or do not qualify for benefits, learn how to apply for Marketplace coverage and find out if you qualify for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or lower costs for a Marketplace insurance plan.

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Visit your state website for Unemployment Insurance benefits.

Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19

CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies), especially in areas of significant community-based transmission.

Read More & Learn how to make a mask

Working for Home, doesn’t have to slow down business.

Our world today is changing due to the coronavirus, but with all that is going on we need to keep our head in the game. Due to the coronavirus, some of us have been forced to work from home for the first time ever and keeping productive and connected can become a challenge. With Technology, this has made business possible.

Here are a few tech tips—from the Crescent team—that we are using to make working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic easier keeping our company connected!

Stay Connected with Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage, and application integration. With the social distancing guidelines in place, daily production meetings can be restored by meeting and collaborating via Teams.The platform connects you SharePoint, Outlook and other Microsoft applications providing all tools needed to host a conference call or project meeting with ease.

Keep all projects top of mind with Asana: Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. With Asana you can keep track of all projects, speed bumps and successes. As business continues allow Asana to keep track and communicate all project plans and honoring the social distancing policy.

Create Training and Presentations with Microsoft Stream: Crescent business is always moving. If you have member who cannot join a meeting, Microsoft Stream allows us to record, save and play messages anywhere and at any time; keeping Crescent connected to our People and our Customers.

New Hire orientation? Someone missed a conference call, no worries, record your meetings through Microsoft Stream and keep your team connected.

Share files easily with Google Drive: This is not a new Crescent platform, but it is an easy to use application that allows for easy document sharing without intranet connectivity. Google drive doesn’t slow down your internal drivers and provides document access, safely and securely without logging into FortiClient.

Where did the new coronavirus originate, how did it spread so fast -- and what's next? Sharing insights from the outbreak, global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh traces the spread of COVID-19, discusses why travel restrictions aren't effective and highlights the medical changes needed worldwide to prepare for the next pandemic. "We need to make sure that every country in the world has the capacity to identify new diseases and treat them," she says.

Watch the Video Here

*Content is meaning to provide a different perspective to the current crisis. T he views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author, and not Crescent*

Most student loan payments are suspended. Here's what you need to know.

In an unprecedented move, the US government is automatically suspending payments and waiving interest on federal student loans for six months , providing immediate relief for more than 20 million people currently paying off their debt.

Quarantine, we all are under the sam restrictions, but that doesn't mean we aren't having fun! How do you quarantine? Share your images on our Facebook or Twitter pages @CrescentRSW and show off what you have been up to!

We'd love to hear from you- Crescent Connected!