Want covid for your children? Come here. I just found out that the SLP, whom my 2 year old and 3 year old have been seeing for months is not vaccinated. The owner of the clinic, Michael Gatto, thinks that this is fine since she is a contracted employee. However, he also stated that he does not require his employees to be vaccinated. He also disclosed that he was unaware of the vaccination status of our SLP and also unaware that she did not inform her patients of this either. There was no apology or a trace of remorse in his voice.
With cases rising (It's December 20, 2021), it is not a question of if but when our SLP will contract covid and give it to my kids. She sees multiple kids a day, many who cannot be vaccinated because they are under 5 years old, and at most wears a face shield but the past several weeks has worn nothing.
The first SLP we saw is vaccinated; we had to switch to the current one because of scheduling conflicts and it was not disclosed to me at the time of the change that our new SLP was unvaccinated. This only came to light beca use the SLP's husband contracted covid so she reached out to let me know.
To be in healthcare- especially in pediatrics- and choose to be unvaccinated is irresponsible and shameful. It also brings into question why she has chosen to not get vaccinated; the last person I want treating my children is someone who doesn't believe in science. I trusted that she was evidence-based in her practice but can't trust this to be true if she doesn't believe in getting vaccinated.
The Speech and Language Connection has robbed me of both a sense of security and time. The time spent on admit paperwork and for my children to build a rapport with the therapist is too many hours to count. I'm sure it will take months to get in at TCH, but at least they require their clinicians to be vaccinated, like the majority of healthcare facilities in the city and country.
I'm beyond upset- I trusted our SLP to provide therapy and to have my kids' best interest at heart. She has put them at increased risk for no reason and it's unacceptable. read more