{"id":1379,"date":"2020-03-09T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobartymca.org\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:04:37","slug":"keeping-communities-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/2020\/03\/09\/keeping-communities-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Communities Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">Dear Hobart Family YMCA Community,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Over the last week, you may have heard of the Coronavirus that is raising health\u00a0concerns across the globe. According to Center for Disease Control (CDC), the general\u00a0public in the U.S. is at low risk of contracting the 2019-nCoV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">As with any newly emerging infectious disease, knowledge evolves with time and\u00a0recommendations are changing rapidly. We are closely monitoring information from\u00a0public health officials and will follow their prevention guidelines to help keep our facilities\u00a0clean and community safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Should this issue escalate in our community, the Y will take necessary precautions to\u00a0ensure that our staff and community are safe. We\u2019ve educated our staff and are\u00a0practicing additional hygiene and cleaning practices to ensure that our facilities and\u00a0program locations remain safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">These general practices are also in place for YMCA staff and participants:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">Frequent hand washing is encouraged and practiced with warm water and soap<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Cough and sneeze etiquette is encouraged\u00a0(cover your cough or sneeze with a\u00a0tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Common areas are frequently cleaned including frequent cleaning of door\u00a0handles, fitness equipment, lockers, tables\/countertops, phones and other common \u201chigh-touch\u201d items in each Y facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">Hand sanitizer is available in our facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">YMCA staff, members and participants are asked to stay home when ill (and to\u00a0remain home for 24 hours after symptoms have disappeared if the illness is flu-like or gastrointestinal)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">If you would like more information on the Coronavirus, please refer to<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Please be sure to check in on neighbors to ensure they are ok. In times like this social\u00a0isolation is more common. A simple phone call can go a long way. Thank you for\u00a0working with us to ensure our community is safe and welcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">Andrew Zimmer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 19px;font-size: 16px\">CEO, Hobart Family YMCA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1381\" src=\"https:\/\/hobartymca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1700\" height=\"2200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster-.png 1700w, http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster--232x300.png 232w, http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster--791x1024.png 791w, http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster--768x994.png 768w, http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster--1187x1536.png 1187w, http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/CORONAPoster--1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Hobart Family YMCA Community, Over the last week, you may have heard of the Coronavirus that is raising health\u00a0concerns across the globe. According to Center for Disease Control (CDC), the general\u00a0public in the U.S. is at low risk of contracting the 2019-nCoV. As with any newly emerging infectious disease, knowledge evolves with time and\u00a0recommendations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4],"tags":[28,14],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","category-y-blog","tag-healthy","tag-member-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/datamine.mobi\/hobartymca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}