Casie Stoughton, Amarillo’s public overall health director, honored with 2020 Headliner Award

Whilst 2020 was a yr loaded with modification and alteration, with regard to the metropolis of Amarillo’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Public Overall health Department Director Casie Stoughton proved to be a continual. 

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Stoughton has been at the forefront of the city’s pandemic response hard work since March 2020, which included making regular appearances through metropolis organized media briefings when also addressing the community during Amarillo Metropolis Council conferences. She continues to do so into the new yr. For her endeavours, Stoughton has been named just one of the 2020 Amarillo Globe-News Headliners.

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“I carry a important chain with a quotation from Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern-day nursing: ‘I go where by I am called to support all those in need to have.’ I was born in Amarillo, and other than a short period of time of time dwelling in Honduras, I have lived right here my overall existence,” Stoughton mentioned in reaction to a World-Information e-mail inquiry, describing the practical experience of currently being at the forefront of the city’s pandemic reaction from the onset. “It has been an honor to serve my hometown for the duration of this crisis. There are so many here who have poured into me, and now I have an chance to give again to the persons and community I adore.”

Stoughton made available the next regarding some of the most challenging areas of the department’s efforts to supply the pandemic response:

“The pandemic has taken its toll on our entire group,” she shared. “Our crew has noticed firsthand the significant load COVID-19 has placed on all people. We connect with to verify in on unwell individuals, only to locate out the future day that a partner has passed absent. We have worked with households who are quarantined and want to help limit the distribute of the illness but struggle to make finishes satisfy. We are so thankful that, thanks to the generosity of our neighborhood, we have sources to deliver to aid persons. Our group cries with each dying and rejoices with just about every restoration.”

For every Stoughton, partnerships and collaboration have been critical to the accomplishment in presenting a pandemic response.

“Not only as a general public health section, but as a community,” she pointed out. “I often say Amarillo is my beloved place to are living simply because we are big enough to have essential means but small more than enough to have sturdy private associations. I am so thankful for all our partners who mentioned ‘yes’ without having hesitation and have tirelessly carried out so for just about a 12 months.”

Stoughton made available the pursuing message to inhabitants amid the process of navigating what has develop into an at any time evolving circumstance. 

“Early on, I read a post that said, ‘We are not all in the identical boat, but we are all in the exact same storm.’ This reminds me that we must continue to operate together battling from COVID-19,” she extra. “For some of us, this usually means being at home to stop the distribute of the virus. For some of us, it signifies heading to do the job with the important precautions: masks, social distancing and constrained gatherings. I am so very pleased to are living in Amarillo, Texas. Although we are all in this very same storm, we pulled together to have foodstuff drives, say thank you to our healthcare employees and select up groceries for every single other. So even while we wanted to be physically distant, we did massive items jointly to make a difference. I want to say thank you.”

Amarillo Town Council member Eddy Sauer mentioned Stoughton warrants a standing ovation for her work. 

“It is really fantastic,” he claimed. “People today all above the state know who she is. I am grateful for her ahead wondering.” 

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