Hamilton Medical Center Thanks City Leaders

At Monday night's meeting of the Dalton Mayor and Council, Hamilton Medical Center's CEO Jeff Myers presented a resolution from the hospital's Board of Trustees thanking City leaders for their support of the hospital system during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August of 2021, the City of Dalton declared a state of emergency that allowed city employees to serve to supplement hospital staff in non-medical support roles and also some medical roles for employees trained as paramedics. City employees worked shifts at the hospital during the worst part of the Delta variant wave of the virus in 2021.

A group of City of Dalton Fire Department, Parks and Rec Department, and Public Works employees who helped to coordinate that effort stood alongside Mr. Myers after the reading of the resolution, along with Mayor David Pennington and a group of Hamilton Medical Center employees. 

The resolution read: 

WHEREAS, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic THE CITY OF DALTON prioritized our community's safety and health by responding with compassion, understanding, and action to the needs of Hamilton Medical Center and its staff by issuing a state of emergency; and 

WHEREAS, THE CITY OF DALTON, the Mayor, and its City Council members partnered with Hamilton Medical Center to inform the community about, and advocate for, reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus; and 

WHEREAS, during staffing shortages at Hamilton Medical Center, THE CITY OF DALTON volunteered its medically-trained employees to temporarily staff the hospital to ensure that Hamilton Medical Center could continue operating at maximum capacity to fulfull its mission of copmassionate care for all patients even during the highest peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic; and 

WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that THE CITY OF DALTON, the Mayor, and the City Council members be honored for their outstanding service and prompt actions in the face of the worst health crisis in more than a generation;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hamilton Medical Center, by unanimous vote, this 18th day of November, 2021, does hereby recognize THE CITY OF DALTON for its support of Hamilton Medical Center and its patients, and does hereby extend to THE CITY OF DALTON and its City Council members its deepest gratitude and appreciation for the acts of service and support they have offered to Hamilton Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that a copy of this Resolution be delivered to Mayor David Pennington and set forth in the minutes of Hamilton Medical Center so that THE CITY OF DALTON and all who now and hereafter serve as Trustees of Hamilton Medical Center may know of this Board's deep appreciation for THE CITY OF DALTON and the high esteem in which it is held as a consequence thereof.