Staffing provider ATC Healthcare Services announced it started a pop-up Covid vaccine clinic in New York’s Times Square aimed at getting Broadway theater workers vaccinated. It will be staffed by Broadway workers as well.
Once at full capacity, the pop-up clinic will deliver up to 1,500 vaccine doses per day in the coming months. ATC has hired at least 80 laid-off Broadway workers to staff the clinic in administrative support roles while clinical staff administer the shots.
“Being able to fill 100% of the non-clinical jobs with laid off members of the theater community at the Times Square site is something really special,” said Jordan Savitsky, president of ATC Healthcare’s vaccine division. “At ATC, our forte is top-tier medical services solutions — wrangling theater workers is a challenge we hadn’t encountered before.”
Site manager at the clinic is Susan Sampliner, who had been company manager for the play Wicked since it first opened on Broadway in 2003. The job’s responsibilities and required skill sets overlap with the organizational and management skills needed to run a Broadway show, ATC said.
The pop-up clinic is located at the intersection of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York.