Pandemic Frontlines with Hospital's Haady Lashkari

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Dec 17, 2022 · 1h 14m

Few if any Ojai residents were thrust further into maelstrom of the Covid-19 breakout than Haady Lashkari, Ojai Valley Community Hospital's chief administrator. Lashkari is responsible for the hospital's 300 employees and, by proxy, for the health care for the entire Ojai Valley. Those earliest days in the late winter and early spring of 2020 were met with a determined response: Assessing capacity, briefing key staff repeatedly, supply chain issues, mobilizing ventilators, sending covid cases to Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, the lack of available testing, finding masks, and the…