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Bill Russell:All right.
Bill Russell:We have another conversation from the health conference health 2021.
Bill Russell:And today we are with, uh, Mike McNamara.
Bill Russell:The, are you the president and CEO of impact health?
Bill Russell:Sure, sure.
Bill Russell:I run things that impact health and I'm thanks for coming on the show.
Bill Russell:Absolutely.
Bill Russell:I, uh, I commented this morning on the show that the, the process, one of the
Bill Russell:first things you're you're faced with as you come to this conference, The process
Bill Russell:for making sure everybody is safe and we're all vaccinated, but they also put
Bill Russell:in the, the option for not often, but they put it in that process for testing.
Bill Russell:And your company is handling all that testing for the conference.
Bill Russell:Talk about, correct?
Mike McNamera:Sure.
Mike McNamera:So we actually, uh, from an intake situation, enterprise software solution,
Mike McNamera:uh, for this type of program, we use clear we've partnered with them for.
Mike McNamera:Many many programs we helped open up Vegas.
Mike McNamera:MGM is a big client for both of us.
Mike McNamera:Uh, the conventions system, uh, out of Vegas, even the state of Nevada.
Mike McNamera:So it's, uh, it's a program we're quite comfortable doing.
Mike McNamera:We can take it to large scale like this five, 10,000 people and put
Mike McNamera:them through a process of testing.
Mike McNamera:Uh, essentially clear would give you the green pass after you've had.
Mike McNamera:Uh, there's so many platforms now for COVID testing, uh, to make an
Mike McNamera:environment safe and to make this bubble the way it needs to be.
Mike McNamera:Uh, today we're using an antigen test.
Mike McNamera:Then we back it up with a confirmatory on essentially a PCR
Mike McNamera:test that is portable out of the lab out of a high complexity lab.
Mike McNamera:That's our confirmatory, uh, that takes 30 minutes.
Mike McNamera:So if you walk in here, The test itself takes a less than 20 minutes.
Mike McNamera:By the time we put you onto the app, the clear app and get you
Mike McNamera:all connected in that manner.
Mike McNamera:Some people actually get a test prior to coming here and that can
Mike McNamera:go onto the clear app and they can get, uh, entrance that way.
Mike McNamera:Or they get tested by our, our clinicians.
Mike McNamera:Uh, we had 50 clinicians here yesterday.
Mike McNamera:Got about 40 here today.
Mike McNamera:50 on a Sunday tested 2,500 people.
Mike McNamera:That's a normal ramp for us.
Mike McNamera:Uh, it's not unusual for us to do a thousand, 2000 walk-ups
Mike McNamera:or drive-throughs 14 states.
Mike McNamera:I mean, COVID has done certain things to certain companies.
Mike McNamera:We're one of the companies that's exploded and we went from a 600 folks to over
Mike McNamera:20,000 healthcare professionals that work W2 for impact health on a nationwide.
Mike McNamera:And, uh, it's been incredible and conferences like this.
Mike McNamera:We love them.
Mike McNamera:Um,
Bill Russell:so conference, as I'm thinking through this conferences
Bill Russell:companies, uh, like MTM in the entertainment business, but also large
Bill Russell:scale companies that are now sort of grappling with this, this balance of, of
Bill Russell:testing on an ongoing basis and vaccines.
Mike McNamera:Well, yeah.
Mike McNamera:Today's date, uh, October 18th, correct?
Mike McNamera:Right.
Mike McNamera:So we're in the middle of a, what's the mandate going to be from our federal
Mike McNamera:government when it comes to, uh, workers, uh, and companies with over a hundred
Mike McNamera:employees, what are we going to do?
Mike McNamera:How are we going to get them back to work?
Mike McNamera:So, yes, I work with the largest companies in the country, uh, companies that have
Mike McNamera:supply chain issues that need to get back, uh, working and getting people to.
Mike McNamera:Uh, the microns of the world, um, premise is a client of ours and they have 50, 70
Mike McNamera:large scale, massive companies, the J and J's of the world Smucker's of the world.
Mike McNamera:Right?
Mike McNamera:So all those companies have got to get their people back in,
Mike McNamera:and that's what we like to do.
Mike McNamera:And it's for COVID vaccine.
Mike McNamera:It's for COVID testing, it's getting home tests in the hands of
Mike McNamera:the employees on a regular basis.
Mike McNamera:It's observing that it's collecting that data, uh, so that we can communicate
Mike McNamera:with the employer, uh, about their employees, uh, which they have to
Mike McNamera:sign consent, to be able, uh, for us all, to communicate in that manner.
Mike McNamera:We're not sharing their information with anybody we're just performing that
Mike McNamera:service so that the employer knows yes.
Mike McNamera:Uh, that person has been vaccinated or yes, that person has had a
Mike McNamera:positive or a negative test so that, uh, work can go on and.
Bill Russell:You know, it's interesting in Massachusetts and I know you're
Bill Russell:not a technology guy per se, but when I got here, a little thing popped up
Bill Russell:on my phone that said, Hey, would you like to know if you've come in contact
Bill Russell:with people who have COVID it's like in Massachusetts, they've set this, or at
Bill Russell:least in Boston, they've set this up.
Bill Russell:And I think part of that has to be somebody reporting, you
Bill Russell:know, positive tests is that.
Bill Russell:And we just tested all these people in Boston, you would say, Hey, here,
Bill Russell:here's the positive tasks in Boston would say, you know, these people, these
Bill Russell:phones have come in contact with this,
Mike McNamera:right?
Mike McNamera:So we're state to state on this and we report to CDC.
Mike McNamera:We have to report to CDC and on these things.
Mike McNamera:And as an example, in a conference like this, with people who are
Mike McNamera:double vaccinated, and that's part of the opportunity to be able to
Mike McNamera:come in here, uh, it's a very low.
Mike McNamera:But when we do stop someone from coming in here, uh it's because they're
Mike McNamera:positive and then confirm positive.
Mike McNamera:And at that person would be able to enter into a location like this
Mike McNamera:and that, that 10 people they meet.
Mike McNamera:And then 10 people meet the people who met them.
Mike McNamera:And you understand the math when it comes to this.
Mike McNamera:So protecting the bubbles, important, communicating to the state and federal
Mike McNamera:government, it's part of what we have to do from a regulatory standpoint, the
Mike McNamera:licensure that we have to go through.
Mike McNamera:UAS that have changed in the last weeks and months, you have to be updated
Mike McNamera:in every state for reporting for, uh, permitting it's it's, uh, the logistics
Mike McNamera:of this business are just staggering.
Mike McNamera:It is, but it's part of what gives people that comfort that we're doing,
Mike McNamera:what we should do to stem the tide,
Bill Russell:the false positives.
Bill Russell:Do you worry about false positives or do you have.
Bill Russell:Confirming test.
Mike McNamera:So the sensitivity, you know, I don't want to bore anybody
Mike McNamera:with the math, but you know, the sensitivity is such that you're going
Mike McNamera:to end up every a hundred people.
Mike McNamera:You're going to end up with so many people that you've got a false positive.
Mike McNamera:And the great thing about having the other S uh, science, uh, platforms that
Mike McNamera:we have, their sensitivity goes up more expensive, a little longer time for.
Mike McNamera:Uh, you know, to have that test process, but when you get the number of false
Mike McNamera:positives and then can confirm that with one of these high quality tests, uh, you
Mike McNamera:can feel very, very safe at that point.
Mike McNamera:So
Bill Russell:are you able to give any numbers on that?
Bill Russell:Like, you know, I mean, because everybody, everyone who's vaccinated right.
Bill Russell:Coming up here.
Bill Russell:That's I assume, felt healthy coming up here.
Bill Russell:Cause you have to fill out the right th the form that says, Hey, I feel
Bill Russell:healthy and whatever, even to get on a plane, you had to fill that out.
Bill Russell:Um, so I would imagine, you know, you'd have to have to have a breakthrough case.
Bill Russell:It would have to be a special case for someone to be positive here.
Mike McNamera:Yeah.
Mike McNamera:I would say that in these environments that we control and people have to
Mike McNamera:enter the workers, uh, you know, all the way to the Teamsters who organized,
Mike McNamera:you know, uh, the, the 400 boosts here.
Mike McNamera:And, uh, everybody works at the conference center and the convention
Mike McNamera:centers and the surrounding hotels.
Mike McNamera:You know, we, we feel as though we can protect folks.
Mike McNamera:We did that for, uh, for the previous administration.
Mike McNamera:They were the only ones straddling for, uh, the summer and into the fall of 2020.
Mike McNamera:And I recall we did over a hundred events for them and.
Mike McNamera:That we know of, there was no super spreader event at any of those.
Mike McNamera:A hundred plus events.
Mike McNamera:Uh, Tulsa was a little, um, out of control.
Mike McNamera:I didn't, I did not have control feature there.
Mike McNamera:I only protected around, uh, the president, uh, who came to speak
Mike McNamera:at that rally, uh, that area I know is, was safe and protected.
Mike McNamera:And then the only place that we weren't allowed to in the country to test was the.
Mike McNamera:So the white house had its own medical staff.
Mike McNamera:So when Amy Coney Barrett was nominated for the Supreme court, we were not
Mike McNamera:allowed on the white house grounds.
Mike McNamera:That is the only place I know of in that previous administration, that a
Mike McNamera:super spreader event actually happened and it can happen easily, but you got
Mike McNamera:to have the right protocols in place.
Mike McNamera:That was the white house medical involved.
Mike McNamera:Um, you know, we were, we were testing other places for other events around that.
Mike McNamera:That we weren't at the rose garden.
Mike McNamera:And I think that's the only one that I know of where there was a superstar event
Mike McNamera:during all of Trump's, um, campaigning and his previous administration.
Bill Russell:So, so I'm curious, I mean, is this, this is your core business.
Bill Russell:What does your business look like?
Bill Russell:Moving out?
Bill Russell:I mean, will this, or do we see this pretty strong next
Mike McNamera:year as well?
Mike McNamera:You know, age doesn't mean anything it's it's, you know, how
Mike McNamera:you feel, how you act, how you.
Mike McNamera:And, uh, I I'm supposed to be in my retirement years and you know, this
Mike McNamera:could have, you know, could have happened when I was 45 and not the age I am.
Mike McNamera:But
Bill Russell:so this really has led to a
Mike McNamera:significant uptake in Dubai since it has.
Mike McNamera:I mean, it's, I, it's not, it's not calculable, right.
Mike McNamera:That the growth is, is, is staggering.
Mike McNamera:Uh, you know, it's, it's.
Mike McNamera:Bigger than a Facebook, right.
Mike McNamera:It's just been kind of crazy.
Mike McNamera:So, but in terms of what's next, I mean, rapid deployment of
Mike McNamera:healthcare services at scale, that's the mantra and impact health.
Mike McNamera:We can go anywhere.
Mike McNamera:We've got great, got hundreds of people who are qualified.
Mike McNamera:We can stand up a group in a matter of hours of FEMA.
Mike McNamera:We have a contract with.
Mike McNamera:They give us 72 hours, we're ready in 48 hours to go to any emergency
Mike McNamera:in our country or in any of the us, uh, properties, uh, around the world.
Mike McNamera:And it's, it's daunting and it's going to change.
Mike McNamera:I can tell you that impact health has been nothing but a change
Mike McNamera:company, uh, and have to adapt.
Mike McNamera:I mean, when we had the dip in.
Mike McNamera:And then the scale up for the Delta variant.
Mike McNamera:So as someone who wants to build value and have my employees, uh, on a long-term
Mike McNamera:basis, so that, uh, you know, we're, we're creating a good environment
Mike McNamera:to work and to grow and prosper.
Mike McNamera:And we've now turning our business into a staffing business, a staffing
Mike McNamera:business with 20,000 dedicated folks.
Mike McNamera:Who've got COVID.
Mike McNamera:Nationwide.
Mike McNamera:Uh, in an example in Florida, I've had over 1500 people working for
Mike McNamera:me, just in the state of Florida in South Carolina last month, 63,000
Mike McNamera:days of employment for nurses based on the work we're doing in one state.
Mike McNamera:So I think I'm a staffing company of rapidly deployed healthcare services.
Mike McNamera:It's
Bill Russell:Thank you very much for, for all the work that you guys did.
Bill Russell:Thank you.
Bill Russell:Thanks
Mike McNamera:for the time.
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