After more than three months, the Wisconsin National Guard’s mission to assist as nursing assistants at state healthcare facilities is winding down.
Senior Wisconsin National Guard leaders and officials from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services traveled to several healthcare facilities around the state to express their appreciation for the partnership that formed between them and the hospitality they provided to the Guard members who have been serving at those facilities.
Charlene Everett, the chief executive officer at Odd Fellows Home in Green Bay where approximately 10 troops assisted beginning in mid-January, praised the Guard members for their service at her facility.
“It’s been wonderful,” she said at an April 26 recognition event at Odd Fellows Home. “They’ve been obedient, attentive, and so kind to our residents.”
Brig. Gen. Tim Covington, the Wisconsin National Guard’s deputy adjutant general for civil support, traveled to Green Bay to personally thank the Soldiers and Airmen involved in the nursing assistant support mission who served at Bellin Health Systems facilities and Odd Fellows before traveling to La Crosse, where troops had been assisting at both Mayo Clinic and Hillview Health Center.
