September 26, 2022

I sat with my team until well after end of day, agonizing and arguing and arranging just the right way to announce it to our hospital – we are relaxing masking restrictions in light of the CDC/CMS guidance released last week. It took us a long time to get here, and the truth is there is no such thing as just the right way. South Peninsula will be the first hospital in Alaska to set foot on uncharted territory. The first, on the last frontier, to attempt a normalization of that which can never be normal again. We will never be pre-pandemic, but we can take a step toward whole, and whole faces are a great start. At 5:48pm, the All Staff email is sent. Let’s do this.