There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
~Sonia Sotomayor
Today, we’re all facing adversity during this unprecedented pandemic and we search for ways we can help.
We find ourselves inspired by the good works we see around us: the courage of doctors and nurses, the dedication of researchers, and the innovation of businesses temporarily reinventing themselves into PPE manufacturers to provide protective masks and gowns to our essential workers. Small businesses are banding together while they are closed, raising money from their network of clients and then using that money to pay restaurants to provide meals to those front-line healthcare workers. Ordinary folks struggling to meet their own grocery needs are managing to gather extra supplies to donate to food pantries for those who have less. Scores of people are sewing masks in their homes for healthcare workers. The stories are countless, and the creativity and energy are seemingly endless as so many are tapping unexpected strengths to find a role to help.
Like so many others during this crisis, we’ve been focused on helping wherever we can. We’ve been working with local, leading hospitals in the Greater Boston area for over three decades, helping them plan, install and service their communications backbone. So, during this Covid-19 emergency, we were ready and happy to jump in and help, immediately.
Early on in the crisis, a well-known Burlington hospital was setting up a remote drive-through Covid-19 testing site. We were asked to set up cabling that would connect the remote site to the main hospital. We received the call and were installing the cabling – connecting through a communications closet in the parking garage – within 1 hour.
Another long-time client of KTS, a Boston-area hospital, was expanding their patient care space to accommodate more beds for Covid-19 patients. They reached out to us to install cabling. However, the demand increased so quickly that the work could not be done because patients were already in the rooms. So, instead, we were asked to solve another challenge in a lab where testing for the virus was being done. The test machines were all dependent on the same switch. As a fail-safe measure, KTS installed cabling so that each testing machine was operating on its own cable.
Another local hospital reached out for us to install wireless access points in the hallways on four floors of their facility. Patient beds were already set up in the hallways for overflow and triage. This work ensured reliable wireless communication for patient care.
Like many, we are a small business fighting to survive and seeking ways to help in combatting this virus. We’re happy to have helped and are so thankful to all those on the front lines fighting to save lives.
If we can help you during these challenging times, please contact KTS. We’re ready to face adversity to help us all get through this.
