Once a match is made, you and your COVID-19 Match can coordinate the delivery of essential supplies, like food, toiletries, and prescriptions. You and your match can also help one another feel less isolated by checking-in on the phone or by other electronic means. Please follow all directions provided by the CDC to mitigate community spread.
Note: Only individuals who are at low-risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19, as outlined by the CDC, can offer assistance that requires leaving social isolation.
Offering Assistance and Low-Risk?
In order to help ensure individuals who are more at risk of developing serious complications from Covid-19 can still meet their basic needs, Merit Cares is offering a matching service between individuals who are high-risk and those who are low-risk.
For the purposes of this form, individuals who are considered high-risk include those who are 65 years of age and older, people who are immunocompromised including cancer treatment, those with chronic lung disease or asthma, people with heart disease with complications, liver disease, renal failure, diabetes, sever obesity, and other underlying conditions
Click Here to access the form for low risk volunteers
*****IMPORTANT: During deliveries of supplies or any other contact made between neighbors, social distancing as recommended by the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/) shall always be followed. Volunteers shall not come within less than six feet of any neighbor who they are helping at any time. Volunteers are asked to never enter the home of any high risk individuals unless it is an emergency situation.
All grocery purchases should be ordered and paid for through the Pubix Online shopping link (https://www.publix.com/shop-online) or other similar local site. Volunteers shall not pay for or collect payment from home bound residents at any time. Volunteers are not responsible for locating items that are not available at the time of ordering.
Offering Assistance and High-Risk?
We also recognize that people who fall into the high-risk category may also want to offer assistance while still maintaining the social isolation recommendations set by the CDC. If an appropriate match is found with somebody simply needing personal contact via chat or the phone, or if there is a need for virtual administrative support, we will contact you for your help.
Once a match is made, you and your COVID-19 Match can help one another feel less isolated by checking-in on the phone or by other electronic means. Please follow all directions provided by the CDC to mitigate community spread.
Note: Only individuals who are at low-risk of developing serious complications from COVID-19, as outlined by the CDC, can offer assistance that requires leaving social isolation.
If you know of other ways for high-risk individuals to get involved, please email us!