PLEASE NOTE: Milwaukee CovidSitters is a service meant to help fill gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and is not meant to serve as a primary childcare service.
WHO: We are students at the Medical College of Wisconsin who are looking to help providers in the Milwaukee area who need help managing their household while serving at the frontlines during COVID-19.
WHAT: This form is intended for ALL healthcare workers (Custodial staff, DO, Med Tech, MD, NP, RN, etc.) in Milwaukee looking for help with childcare/babysitting, grocery runs, pharmacy runs to be able to make connections with current medical/health professions students who want to help them, during COVID-19.
WHERE: In or around the Milwaukee area
WHY: We want to support you as best as we can during this important time of community effort! It takes a village! Please direct all questions to
milwcovidsitters@gmail.comHOW: After you fill this form, We will look at our central database which contains names of students who are able to help with the above-mentioned. We will connect you with a small group of 2-5 health professional students via email, after which you can make plans as your schedules work! Having a central document for both requests and connections will help us minimize confusion and cross talk.
Please note that this service is flexible and might change daily. We will do our best as students to support you! In return, we ask for your timely response to students and to be aware of our own limitations.
PLEASE READ: If you or anyone in your household meets any of the following criteria, we are unable to partner with you at this time and we apologize:
- Experienced a fever in the past 2 weeks
- Experienced shortness of breath in the past 2 weeks
- Traveled to Europe, China, South Korea, Iran, California, New York, etc. in the past 2 weeks
- Had contact with anyone diagnosed with COVID-19
- Are not fully immunized (standard immunizations + current influenza immunization)
