People sometimes inquire about the safety precautions being taken at Perry Wellness Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a wellness program, the center makes every effort to ensure that health recommendations are followed for social distancing, mask wearing, and other preventive measures. Once daily precaution is a temperature check. Using a non-invasive thermometer, certified peer specialist Sarah Teal takes the temperature of each peer several times per day.

She explains, “We check all peers before they get on our van. If their temperature is high, they cannot come to Perry Wellness Center. When they arrive on campus, they are again checked. Their temperature is checked twice more each day, before lunch and with their van departure from our campus. If reading is 100.4 or more, the peer is placed away from our population, and another course of handling the temperature is assigned.”

If sickness and a high temperature are found, peers must visit a doctor and have approval to return before they come back on campus.

With a resurgence of the number of people testing positive for the virus increasing in most states, including Georgia, such precautions are important for the continued welfare of all peers and staff.

In the photo above, Dorothy Seay allows staff member Sarah Teal to take her morning temperature.