American Queen (Image: AQSC)
The Hornblower team’s river cruise ship brand name, American Queen Steamboat Company (AQSC), is partnering with Louisiana’s biggest charitable, scholastic, medical care system, Ochsner Health, to aid carry out a secure return of visitors as well as staffs to its paddlewheelers when its short-term remain of procedures finishes.
AQSC is executing Ochsner’s Safe to Return Employer Solutions, presented in action to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under this program, Ochsner Health will certainly carry out analyses of the American Queen, American Duchess as well as American Countess as well as will certainly collaborate with AQSC on executing illness avoidance as well as reduction approaches throughout the whole AQSC fleet. The program likewise offers real-time accessibility to contagious illness professionals within the Ochsner Health system need to a requirement occur.
AQSC will certainly be introducing information on a medical care companion for its Pacific Northwest travel plans aboard the American Empress in the coming weeks.
As component of Ochsner Safe to Return Employer Solutions, Ochsner Health will certainly reassess the AQSC vessels on a month-to-month basis as well as give upgraded referrals as required based upon clinical information as well as the Centers for Disease Control as well as Prevention (CDC) referrals.
As an outcome of the collaboration with Ochsner Health referrals, AQSC will certainly carry out the complying with activities:
- Offer a Virtual Employer Clinic, powered by TytoCare, so staff members as well as visitors, if essential, can basically talk with a medical care expert without getting off.
- Provide accessibility to contagious illness professionals within the Ochsner Health system.
- Utilize Ochsner Health workers to manage the pre-boarding testing procedure as well as analyses on all travel plans getting started in New Orleans,La AQSC will certainly identification medical care companions for the added turn ports of phone call.
- Engage Ochsner Health to carry out month-to-month analyses of the AQSC health and wellness methods as well as make changes as required.
“We are thrilled to have this ongoing support from Ochsner Health and their expert-team of providers,” claims John Waggoner, owner as well as Chief Executive Officer ofAmerican Queen Steamboat Company “By partnering with Ochsner Health, we are able to provide added preventative measures to our already increased diligence in guest and crew safety.”
Along with the Ochsner collaboration, AQSC introduced brand-new health and wellness methods being applied throughout all vessels consisting of pre-cruise testings, staff testings, upgraded boarding procedures, raised hygiene steps, boosted modern technologies as well as an onboard telehealth capacity. Technology highlights consist of MXP Protect, which integrates making use of thermal imaging. These brand-new plans as well as techniques will certainly be applied when AQSC resumes its procedures.
Victory Cruise Lines, run by AQSC, will certainly carry out comparable health and wellness methods as the AQSC fleet when it resumes its procedures on the Great Lakes as well as Canadian Maritimes.
To guarantee the safety and security as well as convenience of both visitors as well as staff, AQSC as well as Victory are remaining present with support, requireds as well as public wellness improvements interacted by the Centers for Disease Control as well as Prevention (CDC), United State Department of Health as well as Human Services (HHS), United State Coast Guard (USGC) as well as the districts each vessel brows through.
Read much more concerning the brand-new health and wellness methods HERE
