By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
The Kansas City Chiefs support local health care workers.
Mosaic Life Care received two tickets to the Super Bowl. Two randomly selected caregivers, Dr. Louis Jamtgaard and Nurse Pat Howard, will attend the Super Bowl in Tampa this Sunday.
Dr. Jamtgaard says this opportunity means so much to him.
"We've all been in this together. Especially with Pat being in the ICU, me in the emergency department, we're all kind of the continuum of taking care of a lot of these COVID patients that are coming in. It's just nice to have some recognition from the corporate world for a lot of the things we have been doing and I'm just really grateful overall," says Jamtgaard to St. Joseph Post.
Dr. Jamtgaard says he was working his shift Friday when he received the news.
"Two or three of the hospital Vice Presidents and administration came down and were looking for me, sometimes that could be a bad sign," says Jamtgaard. "Apparently they were there to let me know that I had won a ticket to the Super Bowl and they wanted to make sure that I'd be available to go."
Howard could not believe the phone call she received on her day off.
"I said, 'Are you kidding me?' I thought it was kind of joke or something. I was like, 'I cannot believe that,'" says Howard. "I was truly blown away. It's like craziness. It was awesome."
Doctor Jamtgaard says his family is excited for him to have this experience.
"Called my wife, and I was telling my parents and they were wondering how many people get to go with me but afterwards I think they were just excited for me because they've been apart of this pandemic too and experiencing everything so they said 'I'm glad that you are getting to go and enjoy it' so they were happy," says Jamtgaard.
Nurse Pat Howard says the hospital staff is a little jealous but excited for her to have this opportunity.
"Several of my coworkers were all excited and then they say 'We're jealous too,'" says Howard. "We wish we could take all of our work family with us cause everybody has really risen to the task all this last year. Its been very challenging but I'm just happy to represent the Mosaic ICU nursing team."
Jamtgaard and Howard say they are looking forward to the experience this weekend.