{"id":1846,"date":"2017-09-29T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:02:50","slug":"hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Caregivers: Assisting Hands Fort Myers Takes their Business Personally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is the second post in a series of stories from our franchise owners in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. In our first post, Tricia Winiecki shared her story of her caregivers in Naples (Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-assisting-hands-naples-go-above-and-beyond\/\">here<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Fort Myers, Florida, President Robert Thomas provided stories on a number of caregivers and staff members who selflessly served during the hurricane. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Caregiver Jackie W took a Medicare waiver client to her home and provided care there until the storm is over.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joanne R took a client to home when her client\u2019s home lost air-conditioning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chelsea M arrived at a client\u2019s home found that a tree at fallen under the house and caused damage, and she arranged a contractor to go over and fix the damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Connie Y was very persistent in persuading a very stubborn client to evacuate to a shelter. Finally the client agreed to move to the shelter just in time for the storm.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Connie stayed with the client for over 48 hours until relief came.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our on-call scheduler Georgia D had the office phones rolled to her and when the office lost power we were unable to divert phones to anyone else.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thus she had the phones for four straight days and she herself had to evacuate with her family to Mississippi.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our regular scheduler Carole F worked extremely hard to contact all clients and caregivers before the storm, and then arrange emergency care for all clients that needed it during the storm.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She then braved the office with no working phones, electricity or air conditioning, to keep the business running after the storm.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thomas said, \u201cWe feel very blessed to survive the worst in hurricane 50 years in Florida with homes and business mainly intact, and with a such a devoted and professional staff making sure our clients were safe. Thanks so much to them all!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We are thankful for the efforts made by our team in Fort Myers, and continue to pray for the staff, clients and families of Florida.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second post in a series of stories from our franchise owners in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. In our first post, Tricia Winiecki shared her story of her caregivers in Naples (Read the full story here). In Fort Myers, Florida, President Robert Thomas provided stories on a number of caregivers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurricane Caregivers: Assisting Hands Fort Myers Takes their Business Personally<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hurricane Caregivers: Fort Myers Takes Business Personally<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Fort Myers, Florida, Robert Thomas shares stories on a number of caregivers during the hurricane who personally took responsibility for clients.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hurricane Caregivers: Fort Myers Takes Business Personally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Fort Myers, Florida, Robert Thomas shares stories on a number of caregivers during the hurricane who personally took responsibility for clients.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/franchise\/blog\/hurricane-caregivers-fort-myers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Assisting Hands - 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