{"id":5089,"date":"2020-11-06T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:50:16","slug":"stay-calm-and-know-the-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2020\/stay-calm-and-know-the-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Calm and Know the Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\">At the center of 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s response to COVID-19 is Ellen Reynolds &#8217;91, assistant vice president of student health and wellness and the director of Health Services at 溏心vlog免费B站. Known for her boundless energy, calm demeanor, and willingness to do whatever it takes to solve the problem at hand, she&#8217;s leading 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s response to this crisis with characteristic poise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EVmFkMfJl8\" title=\"Stay Calm and Know the Drill YouTube Video\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen Reynolds &#8217;91 had only been the University&#8217;s director of Health Services for about a year-and-a-half when she received disturbing news the morning of Oct. 21, 2014: A student who had been to Liberia\u2013the African country being decimated by Ebola\u2013had returned to campus exhibiting symptoms consistent with the often-fatal disease. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"955\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-955x1024.png\" alt=\"Ellen Reynolds\" class=\"wp-image-5329\" style=\"width:239px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-955x1024.png 955w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-768x824.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-364x390.png 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-500x536.png 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-1000x1073.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds-1280x1373.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Ellen-Reynolds.png 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ellen Reynolds \u201991 was unsure of her career path as an undergrad, but an internship at South County Hospital in her senior year paved the way to a full-time job there and a career in health-care management. She holds a master\u2019s degree in health-care administration from Salve Regina University and is completing a doctorate in educational leadership at Johnson &amp; Wales University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The student tested negative for Ebola, but that scare helped Reynolds and her team respond decisively to a suspected case of COVID-19 on the first day of classes in January 2020. Eventually, the student tested negative for the virus, but Reynolds and her team knew the drill: They immediately isolated the student, meals were delivered to her door, and 溏心vlog免费B站 Health Services personnel used technology to check in with her daily. In addition, her roommates were removed immediately from the shared room, tested, and quarantined for two weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reynolds says that knowing the drill means &#8220;frequent training for our doctors, nurses, EMS responders, and staff in how to put on and take off personal protective equipment, as well as infection-control precautions, contact tracing, inventory control, and supply management.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2020, as the pandemic was beginning to spread internationally, a 溏心vlog免费B站 team was formed to bring students back to the United States\u2013first from China, and then from other countries\u2013and to inform the community about the steps it was taking, Reynolds was often the primary person talking directly with those students and their parents. Through the din of constantly ringing phones and conversations at the University&#8217;s Emergency Operations Center, she retained her smile and calm manner, and even managed to squeeze in time for interviews with the media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pullquote\">Reynolds was central in planning for 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s return to in-person classes this fall, establishing isolation and quarantine processes, and developing resources for students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reynolds&#8217; commitment and steadiness have helped her lead 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak and anchor the University&#8217;s COVID-19 Task Force, along with the University&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management and other administrative units. She is also in constant contact with the Rhode Island Department of Health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that role, Reynolds was central in planning for 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s return to in-person classes this fall, establishing isolation and quarantine processes, and developing resources for students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the start of the fall semester, Reynolds and her Health Services team tested close to 4,000 students moving into campus residence halls. 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Her knowledge, poise, and dedicated leadership bring out the best in everyone on our team.&#8221; \u2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013Dave Lavallee &#8217;79, M.P.A. &#8217;87 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption\"> Photo: Courtesy Ellen Reynolds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s response to COVID-19 is Ellen Reynolds &#8217;91, assistant vice president of student health and wellness and the director of Health Services at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[209,208,207],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2020","tag-covid-19","tag-ellen-reynolds","tag-health-services","architecture-behind-the-scenes","architecture-currents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18713,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/18713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}