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HE A LTHCA RE WORK ER S A RE expe- riencing burnout at alarming rates. In a 2020 EClinicalMedicine survey, almost 50% of healthcare workers reported they were burned out from the COV ID-19 pandemic. A 2021 special report from Mor n i n g Con su lt fou nd t hat , si nce February 2020, 18% of healthcare work- ers have left their roles, 12% were laid off and 31% have contemplated leaving their jobs. Burnout and turnover issues are wors- ening U.S. healthcare provider shortages and hospital occupancy issues that existed even before the pandemic. Patients often wait long hours in the emergency room before seeing a physician, and many leave before they're seen at all. If you're in the healthcare industry, these could be your patients. If you're in any other industry, these could be your employees. Either way, this issue affects us all. The healthcare industry needs new, flexible solutions to ensure everyone has the access to care they need. In Central New York, Drakos Clinical Laboratories strives to serve patients wherever they are. Dra kos provides mobile, at-work and at-home medical testing, concierge medical services, and medical testing logistics for large-scale events and pro- ductions. The company is now pursuing new partnership opportunities to help better reach patients. "At Drakos, we believe in health care without walls," says Drakos Founder and CEO Heather Drake Bianchi. "If we can go into a patient's home, workplace, or another safe location to check their vitals and do their laboratory work, it lessens the pressure on hospitals, urgent cares, and physicians. It can also be safer for many patients, especia lly people who are immunocompromised or have young children or older adults at home." Drakos's story begins in 2020 when its CineMedics division was founded. CineMedics was created to address the unprecedented medical testing needs on film sets during pandemic. "When the pandemic began, there was a significant need to keep entertainment productions running sa fely. People's livelihoods depended on it," says Drake Bianchi. "This was particularly important being from Central New York where we have a relatively new, but rapidly growing COVID-19 HA S R ADICALLY DISRUPTED THE U.S. HE ALTHCARE INDUSTRY, WHICH IN TURN HA S DISRUPTED OTHER BUSINESS INDUSTRIES AND ENTIRE COMMUNITIES. Drakos Clinical Laboratories: Providing Health Care Without Walls in Central New York One of Drakos/CineMedics' mobile health services units, known as "Mega Red" 2 0