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Carolyn Carroll Flynn. Photo: Cary Vogrin, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nurse sets aside own illness to help others<\/h2>\n

The nurse who runs vaccine clinics for UCHealth in Colorado Springs<\/a> is used to putting on big shows.<\/p>\n

A Colorado Springs native, Carolyn Carroll Flynn has had a first act, a second, and now this one, indeed the most rewarding of them all.<\/p>\n

Flynn\u2019s first profession was in the arts. She worked to bring people in to hear the Colorado Springs Symphony, then The Cleveland Orchestra, finally finding her way to an avant-garde orchestra\/theater group, serving as executive director.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a long way from where she is now, a nurse who choreographs the operations of vaccine clinics for Colorado Springs\u2019 largest health care provider, where almost 2,000 people are vaccinated most days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a weird marriage,\u2019\u2019 she said of her past and current lives. \u201cIt\u2019s an event every day. When I was in symphony\/concert management, we would bring in 2,500 people in two and half hours, get them in, hear a concert and get them out.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, the show is bigger for Flynn, both personally and professionally. The goal is not to receive a rave review, laughter or applause \u2013 though there\u2019s plenty of that in the clinics \u2013 it\u2019s to beat a pandemic, to preserve life.<\/p>\n

What most people getting their shots would never know is that the maestro racing to vaccinate a city is sick herself. She has breast cancer. Back in the spring, when COVID-19 swept across the world, Flynn heard the news after a mammogram. In the months that followed, she had chemo, then surgery. Then more surgery.<\/p>\n

Her husband Mike and the nucleus of her family grew closer. Her UCHealth family stepped in. Surgeons cooked dinner. Her boss brought homemade bread, a fellow nurse made chicken noodle soup, which she lived on.<\/p>\n

When Flynn struggled with chemotherapy, a fellow nurse who also had fought cancer had sage words: \u201cYou just have to power on. Cancer is a weird deal. Out of the darkness, if you believe, it will bring you a gift.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

In late December, MJ Yantis, the senior vice president of UCHealth Medical Group<\/a> operations\u00a0in southern Colorado, asked\u00a0Flynn if she would run vaccine clinics in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the gift,\u2019\u2019 she said, looking over the elderly, some infirm, and teachers receiving their vaccines at the Memorial Administrative Center. \u201cThis is my gift and my way of giving back to all those who have cared for me. This is a mission; this is not a job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to beat this \u2018bad boy.\u2019 Let\u2019s stem the tide.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Flynn’s path to conductor of vaccine clinics has roots in the very place she now works.<\/p>\n

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Carolyn Carroll Flynn talks to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis about vaccine distribution at UCHealth Memorial Administrative Center. Photo: UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In December of 2003, her mother became very ill in Colorado Springs. She was emaciated and suffered a grand mal seizure. When the attending physician in the Memorial emergency room came to speak to the family, he was full of compassion. The news was bad.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 6, 2004, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it had already metastasized to her brain.<\/p>\n

Flynn had been working out-of-state as executive director of the theater company at the time. After returning to Colorado Springs, Flynn called her employer and said, \u2018My mother has end-stage cancer. I\u2019m not coming back \u2013 I need to work remotely,\u2019\u2019 she recalled. \u201cWe only did a couple productions a year, but they told me, \u2018you can either come back, or you\u2019re fired.\u2019 I said, \u2018I\u2019m fired.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

She asked her mother, who was in a hospital bed at Memorial Hospital: \u2018What am I going to do now?\u2019\u2019 Her mom said: \u201cYou\u2019re going to be a nurse.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Flynn had toyed with the changing careers. When her mother died, three months to the day of her breast cancer diagnosis, Flynn set out on a new path. She got a job at Starbucks making coffee and earned her nursing degree at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs<\/a>. She\u2019s been a nurse for 15 years now.<\/p>\n

After only four years on the job, Carroll was asked to serve on the Citizen\u2019s Commission for Memorial Hospital, a committee that advised Colorado Springs\u2019 political leaders about the best path forward for city-owned Memorial Hospital. Flynn, along with Dr. David Corry<\/a>, served as representatives for Memorial. They, and others, advised the city to lease the hospital to UCHealth, then a consortium of University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a> in Aurora and Poudre Valley Hospital<\/a> in Fort Collins. In a landslide citywide vote, Memorial became part of UCHealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cUCHealth has lived up to everything \u2013 and more. From their initial RFP they presented to us when we were all on the task force until now. They have done what they said and more. They\u2019ve invested in infrastructure, we\u2019re the first Level I Trauma Center<\/a> in the health system and we have Comprehensive Stroke<\/a> certification. They didn\u2019t put us on the back burner. Back then, there was a concern we would be the third wheel, but Memorial is a vibrant part of UCHealth.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

In her role as nurse manager of vaccine clinics, Flynn oversees an orchestra of professionals who have one goal: get vaccine in arms, and do it safely.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very choreographed, and every day, we\u2019re tweaking the choreography. Last Thursday, we didn\u2019t have three lanes, but Friday we did. We\u2019ve added more stations, almost weekly now. We\u2019re changing the configuration of the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s eyes on patients for safety. \u2026 It\u2019s getting patients through in as an efficient and timely manner as possible. We want them to know that we care about them. Even though it kind of feels like a herd of cattle, it\u2019s not meant to be that way. We care about these people. They\u2019re our friends and neighbors, and the other thing I see is, we\u2019re ambassadors to the community.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Over the past year, nurses and health care providers have seen the sickest of the sick. They\u2019ve held the hands of dying COVID-19 patients when their families could not be present. They\u2019ve held up iPads and other tablets for loved ones from near and far, giving them the chance to say one more \u201cI love you.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

For the nurses and health care providers, they\u2019re now stepping up to say, \u2018Let\u2019s put an end to this,\u2019\u2019 Flynn said, referring to the pandemic. And, she said, it\u2019s rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see and hear how grateful people are for the vaccine, I had a patient come in the other night and she said, \u2018I can go see my grandchildren. I\u2019ve missed a year with my grandchildren. I\u2019ve missed birthdays.\u2019 And for her, it was like the world was opening itself back up,\u2019\u2019 Flynn said.<\/p>\n

Last March, as the pandemic began and Flynn was diagnosed with breast cancer, she scrambled as a nurse to keep patients and staff safe in a world that seemed upside down. With a strict visitor policy in place, she endured months of chemotherapy treatments alone, with only the caregivers from Memorial by her side.<\/p>\n

Her husband Mike accompanied her to one appointment, but after that, no visitors were allowed.<\/p>\n

\u201cChemo is one of the darkest times,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cAnd you know what I learned? As a nurse, or as a health care person, we always say, \u2018patients have choices.\u2019 And they do. The weird thing is when you are diagnosed with cancer, do you really have a choice?\u201d<\/p>\n

When Flynn lost her mother to breast cancer, she vowed never to do chemotherapy. But when the time came, she took chemo. Her hair fell out and she relied on her physicians, Dr. Michelle DeWing<\/a>, breast surgery; Dr. Uchenna Njiaju<\/a>, oncologist; and Dr. Nancy Wong<\/a>, a plastic surgeon, for their expertise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just got it. They just did,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

With support from her co-workers, their fresh-made soup and bread,\u00a0Flynn made it through months of chemo and surgeries and now leads one of the most important missions at Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n

In the vaccine clinic in Colorado Springs, she\u2019s busy. If someone is late for an appointment, she calls them to remind them to come in. She\u2019s giving shots and helping to choreograph a symphony of vaccine delivery. Get them in when it\u2019s their turn, give them a vaccine as safely and swiftly as possible, and send them on their way, back to the normal.<\/p>\n

No matter the event, whether it’s beating a pandemic or beating breast cancer, Flynn has the gift of making sure the show goes on.<\/p>\n

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