Otterbein University representatives posing with supplies to donate during COVID-19 pandemic.

20 Apr Institutions Provide Supplies, Services During COVID-19

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A variety of member colleges and universities are donating a collection of supplies and services to local health organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donating Supplies

University of Dayton faculty are donating personal protection items from their research labs and classrooms to help local healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Margie Pinnell, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, helped organize a donation drive with about 10 faculty and staff from the School of Engineering and the School of Education and Health Sciences to gather thousands of pieces of PPE gear to give to Miami Valley Hospital. With in-person instruction suspended for the spring semester and most on-campus research on hold, the items would otherwise go unused.

Faculty and staff in engineering labs and the physician assistant program donated gloves, face masks, body suits, lab coats, coverall garments, shoe covers and isolation gowns. The University’s Office of Facilities Management will deliver the items Tuesday afternoon.

Other University departments and programs, such as the departments of chemistry and biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will be donating PPE items in the coming days, Pinnell said.

The faculty continue to donate, including than 10,000 gloves, 500 face masks and 100 coverall garments to healthcare workers in early April. Read more at UD’s website.

 

The Wittenberg University Nursing Department has provided hand sanitizer, gowns, and masks to the Springfield Hospital. Also, biology and chemistry departments combined efforts to deliver a truckload of gloves, goggles, aprons, lab coats, shoe covers, and N95 masks from their respective departments to the front lines of the Springfield community after Jennifer Gile, coordinator for chemistry labs and the chemical hygiene officer at Wittenberg, reached out to Selinda Littler of the Clark County Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

Littler was most thankful for the donation and said that EMS will allocate 50 percent of the total items obtained to Springfield’s hospitals, then cover EMS, fire, and law enforcement followed by long-term care facilities. There is such a shortage that EMS is trying its best to meet the needs of front-line personnel first.

 

Lourdes University has given all PPEs to Rosary Care Center, a nursing home owned and operated by our founders, the Sisters of St. Francis. Rosary Care and Lourdes are situated on the same campus grounds owned by the Sisters of St. Francis.

 

Columbus College of Art and Design has delivered 240 cases of latex gloves and 120, N95 mask to 711 Distribution drive.

 

Mount Vernon Nazarene University‘s Nursing Department sent several thousand pairs of gloves to Knox Community Hospital, with more gloves to send. The institution will also allow them to borrow 14 hospital beds from the practice lab. The institution also loaned 12 pairs of goggles to the Wooster Community Hospital Laboratory.

 

Cedarville University student-created masks for COVID-19 pandemicAlthough Cedarville University sophomore Connor Hart of Loveland, Ohio has more than two years remaining in college, he is putting his education in 3-D printing to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a freshman, Hart, the founder of Hands of Hope Foundation, started creating 3-D prosthetics for children with limb differences.  Since social distancing has become protocol to help flatten the COVID-19 curve, Hart stopped meeting with his clients, but switched to printing masks that could help medical professionals and nursing homes during the pandemic. Read more about Hart’s masks at Cedarville’s website.

 

Xavier University student-athletes are also doing their part. Two student-athletes have created a campaign to help raise money for Freestore Foodbank.

“If you’re blessed enough with enough resources, it’s not ‘build a higher fence,’ it’s ‘build a longer table,’” said Riece Drew. Read more at The Enquirer.

 

Recognizing the extreme importance for frontline health care providers to have PPE, Heidelberg University has donated the following to Tiffin Mercy Health:

280 N-95 masks
100 shoe covers
3 oral thermometers with probe covers
300 surgical masks
500 pairs of nitrile gloves
350 isolation gowns

 

Ohio Northern University has the following PPE available for donation:

Exam Gloves: Xsmall, 3,500
Exam Gloves: Small, 28,000
Exam Gloves: Medium, 18,000
Exam Gloves: Large, 19,000
Exam Gloves: XL, 11,500
Exam Gloves: XXL, 3,500
Face Shields, 5
Goggles, 340
N95 Masks , 120
Exam Masks, 150
Safety Glasses, 100
Hairnets, 1,000
Booties, 60
Labcoats: Various Sizes and Qty

ONU will be donating these items to OhioHealth (Hardin Memorial Hospital) and the Kenton Hardin Health Department.

 

Wilmington College quickly mobilized and collected nearly 100 boxes of PPEs, including disposable gloves, gowns and masks used by the Biology, Chemistry and Athletic Training departments. The EMA is distributing the items to first responders and medical facilities in the county.

 

Kenyon College Professor Drew Kerkhoff shared on Twitter how the institution shared supplies to Knox Community Hospital.

 

Donations from University of Findlay in the back of a truck.

University of Findlay has donated a variety of PPE supplies to Blanchard Valley Hospital in Findlay, Wood County Hospital in Bowling Green, and Mercy Health in Toledo.

“It has been amazing,” said Kevin Smith, director of ESH programs. “It is truly hard to believe the amount of supplies that we’re able to donate.”

Read more at University of Findlay’s website.

 

The College of Wooster’s Athletic Training room donated about 25 boxes of gloves and 20 of hand sanitizer to the local United Way for their on the ground work on March 18.

 

Kettering College has donated the following:

139 Examination Glove Boxes (x100)
62 Examination Glove Boxes (x250)​
11 Blue Buffant Boxes (x100)​
40 Surgical Gown​
30 Surgical Mask (x50)​
7 Isolation Gown (Yellow) (x10)​
2 Chux​
7 Gauze Sponges​
9 Alcohol Prep (x200)​
10 Isolation Box Gowns (x15)​
8 Boxes Surgical Gloves (x40)​
255 Single Count Surgical Gloves LATEX​
278 Single Count Surgical Gloves NON-LATEX​
52 Open Boxes Latex and NON-Latex Surgical Gloves

 

 

Supplies donated by Otterbein University during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two of Otterbein University’s healthcare programs put their values into action this week, focusing on the care of patients while also helping take care of their fellow professionals.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is desperately needed by healthcare providers during this unprecedented health crisis. Since Otterbein students are completing their courses online for the remainder of the semester, the Department of Nursing and the Athletic Training Program gathered surplus supplies from their respective clinical labs to donate to the OhioHealth Distribution Warehouse.

 

 

Mount St. Joseph University has donated the a variety of supplies to the following locations:

University of Cincinnati Medical Center
1 Box of sterile gowns
3 and a 1/2 boxes of sterile gloves
3 boxes of head caps
2 boxes shoe guards
2 boxes of facemasks

TriHealth
Welch Allyn Sure Temp Thermometers QTY 10
Welch Allyn Thermometer Probe Covers QTY 3000
Plastic Geratherm Thermometer Oral Sheaths QTY 800
Welch Allyn Tympanic Thermometer with charging base QTY 1
Braun Tympanic Thermometer QTY 1
Tympanic Probe Covers QTY 1,000
Veridan No Touch Forehead Scanner Thermometer QTY 2
Exergen Temporal Scanner Infrared Thermometer QTY 2

Bayley Place Nursing Home
12 ounce Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Bottles QTY 76

Mother Margaret Hall
Exam Gloves size small QTY 1 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size medium QTY 1 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size large QTY 2 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size extra-large QTY 1 cases (1,000 per case)
Germicidal Cave-Wipes Canisters 160 wipes each QTY 10

Mercy West
Welch Allyn Sure Temp Thermometers QTY 3
Welch Allyn Thermometer Probe Covers QTY 5000
Alcohol Prep Pads QTY 2 cases (4,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size small QTY 5 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size medium QTY 3 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size large QTY 6 cases (1,000 per case)
Exam Gloves size extra-large QTY 4 cases (1,000 per case)
Germicidal Cave-Wipes Canisters 160 wipes each QTY 45

 

Ursuline College shared in Instagram and Twitter posts what they provided to area health institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Since our classes all moved online, our Breen School of Nursing students won’t need these supplies from our simulation lab. Instructor Lauren Patton dropped face masks, face shields, goggles, isolation gowns, gloves and bunny suits to grateful colleagues at University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic facilities on Sunday. In a message to nursing faculty, Dean Patricia Sharpnack wrote, “I want us to remember that we are part of a profession where the majority of our colleagues are unable to socially isolate and must put themselves directly in harm’s way.” Up next, letters of encouragement from faculty and students, meals, snacks, desserts and care packages to help keep morale up and let health care workers know that they are the true superheroes! #thankanurse #careforcaregivers #makeyourworldmore

A post shared by Ursuline College (@ursulinecollege) on

 

Using 3D printers and laser cutters, Otterbein is helping by creating and producing personal protective equipment for first responders and medical personnel during the coronavirus crisis. Learn more at ABC6’s website.

 

Denison University has provided hand sanitizer and latex gloves that were in stock at our wellness center and will donate a supply of N95 masks and will make the ones not needed by our staff available to local health officials.

 

Ohio Wesleyan University has donated a variety of supplies to Delaware County EMA, OhioHealth, United Way:

N95 Respirators: 170
Surgical Masks: 400
Gloves: 12,700 pairs
Eye protections: 2
Thermometers: 200 donated, 100 pending

 

Tiffin University has donated the following to Mercy Health–Tiffin Hospital:

    • 28 (each) disposable coveralls from the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences;
    • 2 boxes (50/box) of procedure masks from TU’s Health Center;
    • an N-95 mask and goggles from TU’s Welcome Center

The following are items were donated to Mercy Health-Tiffin Hospital from our Science labs:

    • 59 boxes of gloves (100 gloves/box) and 27 (each) aprons not used this semester in Science labs (please see attached for the breakdown).


Mount Carmel College of Nursing donated supplies to Mount Carmel St. Ann’s on March 28.

 

Wilmington College answered the call of a dire need for personal protection equipment (PPE) issued this week by Clinton County Commissioners and the local Emergency Management Administration (EMA).

The College quickly mobilized and collected nearly 100 boxes of PPEs, including disposable gloves, gowns and masks used by the Biology, Chemistry and Athletic Training departments. The EMA is distributing the items to first responders and medical facilities in the county.

EMA Director Thomas Brickel said in today’s Wilmington News Journal, “The response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be fought and won at the local level.”

 

Lake Erie College shared in a Twitter post that the PA Program donated Personal Protective Equipment to University Hospitals in Cleveland.

 

Ohio Dominican University had its campus offices and university partners donated the following items:

  • Athletic training staff donated three boxes of exam gloves to the United Way of Central Ohio, and a large bottle of hand sanitizer to the Dominican Sisters of Peace, ODU’s founding congregation.
  • Sodexo, ODU’s housekeeping and food services provider, donated a case of exam gloves to the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
  • ODU’s Physician Assistant Studies master’s program donated 30 boxes of exam gloves, 10 reusable protective eyewear, 10 disposable lab coats, one box of face shields, five bottles of hand sanitizer and 92 surgical gowns to Mohun Health Care Center, a 72-bed licensed and certified extended care facility for vowed and ordained religious and immediate family of the Dominican Sisters of Peace.

 

Urbana University Sports Medicine shared in a Twitter post the supplies the department has donated.

Also from Urbana, Dr. Chloe Hart, SOCHE excellence award winner and science faculty, in addition to other key faculty members, donated the a large glove supply from science labs to local hospitals.

 

 

Three University of Mount Union programs donated a host of medical supplies to area hospitals and fire departments.

Mount Union’s Departments of Art and Nursing, along with its Physician Assistant Studies Program, contributed items to Aultman Hospital, Salem Regional Medical Center and local fire departments.

In total, the donations were:

  • 100 surgical gown and cap sets
  • 7,750 pairs of sterile surgical gloves
  • 37 boxes of latex exam gloves
  • Seven boxes of surgical masks
  • 12 packages of single use otoscope probe covers
  • Six boxes of ThermoScan instant thermometer probe covers
  • Three cases of alcohol pads
  • Four large hand sanitizers

Read more at Mount Union’s website.

 

Aultman College has provided a variety of support since the start of remote learning for its students. The entire facility footprint has been offered to Aultman Hospital/Aultman Health Foundation for COVID-19 work.  Currently  in use for a COVID-19 call center, staff retraining rooms/skills labs in preparation for surge, COVID-19 crisis response team rooms, and fit testing for masks.

All PPE, cleaning, and sanitation supplies from skills/simulation/science labs have been turned over to our affiliated health system (e.g., gowns, masks, Purell, wipes, goggles, gloves, thermometers, patient care portable PCs, etc.). The college is prepared to transition patient beds from skills/simulation, as well.

The Aultman College team has provided research support when asked – typically a less than 24 hour turnaround (e.g., most current research on mask use/re-use/disinfection guidelines, leadership crisis management handouts, assistance with modeling software, etc.)

 

 

Muskingum University DonationMuskingum University has donated surgical masks, p-95 masks, and isolation gowns to Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville, Ohio

 

 

 

 

Staff and faculty from Oberlin College donated their inventory of masks, face shields, gowns and gloves to Mercy Health Allen Hospital and Welcome Nursing Home in Oberlin. In total, Oberlin College Student Health Services has donated 180 N95 masks, 50 face shields, 100 gowns, 16 deluxe PPE kits and 3,000 gloves. Read more at The Chronicle’s website.

 

Marietta College has shared two 3D printers with an alumnus to make face shields, as shared on Twitter.

 

Malone University has provided available personal protective equipment to local health officials for use in Stark County. Also, the institution will make available 30 beds for Refuge of Hope. In addition, they shared the items donated by the School of Nursing and Health Sciences in an Instagram post.

 

Mercy College of Ohio has donated several supplies to the Health System, including all of our PPE, hospital beds, and other miscellaneous items.

Li “Dolly” Dong, an Ashland minister, is delivering more than free egg rolls and rice to Chinese Ashland University students.

 

The Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency received donations of personal protective equipment from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

 

Providing Services

Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Christian Outreach Office has opened The Upper Room—a website rich in resources for Catholics and anyone hungering for spiritual nourishment. In The Upper Room you will find podcasts, live webinars on a wide range of spiritual themes, daily E-Spirations, links to livestreamed Masses, a virtual parish mission, and much more.

The Upper Room is also a gateway to the deep library of videos of speakers from Franciscan University of Steubenville’s popular adult and youth conferences.

John Beaulieu, director of Evangelization for Franciscan’s conferences, says, “This page exists for you to come, pray with your brothers and sisters in Christ, and receive more of the grace and power of the Holy Spirit so you won’t just survive, but thrive during these challenging days.”

Visit The Upper Room at steubenvilleconferences.com/theupperroom/.

 

Bluffton Study Buddies will provide academic help and educational games/activities through the Zoom videoconferencing platform. This free service will be offered by Bluffton University education majors, including student teachers. The program will continue every weekday morning through at least May 1, 2020. All online sessions will be monitored by a university faculty or staff member.

 

Members of the Baldwin Wallace University Women’s Soccer team wrote letters to those in elderly care centers. Read more at the Cleveland 19 News webpage.

 

Otterbein students have also volunteered to provide childcare for central Ohio first responders, and the Otterbein community is exploring a variety of other ways others during this time of great need.

Senior Winston Spiker is back in his hometown volunteering at the local elementary school.

“We are providing weekly care packages of food for the students that go to Adamsville Elementary, which is where I went to elementary school,” Spiker said. “My mom and other volunteers wanted to help families who have to watch their children during the day because of the schools being shut down.”

Read more about Spiker at the Otterbein website.

 

Case Western Reserve University students have volunteered to assist with public questions and concerns about COVID-19 pandemic.

All implemented within 48 hours, close to 100 first- to fourth-year medical students and physician-assistant students have been deployed as volunteers to help manage the crush of inquiries to call centers from a worried and confused public.

They’re answering and navigating calls at the Neighborhood Family Practice Community Health Centers location on Ridge Road in Cleveland, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health location in Parma and at the University Hospitals (UH) administrative offices on Warrensville Center Road in Shaker Heights.

Read more about at Case Western Reserve University’s website.

In addition, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University lab, which has become a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven precision medicine research, are developing a computational tool to help medical staff decide which patients will need the most extensive treatment for COVID-19. Read more about the technology.

 

Ashland University has created a video series, Eagles for All. These videos are providing relative content that we feel is needed and timely for our alumni, parents, students, and friends. New videos are promoted and posted every Sunday and Wednesday.

 

To provide support for those unable to attend weekday chapel, Wittenberg’s Campus Ministry team has also gone virtual. Weekday chapel is now being presented via Facebook live at 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays on the Wittenberg University Campus Ministries Facebook page. Virtual Sunday morning worship service are also available.

 

Cedarville University is hosting expert video presentations and weekly town hall meetings, both available to the public. In addition, faculty have been available to the media as subject media experts. Since March 2, there have been 31 news stories with faculty, staff, and students on topics that have been impacted by COVID-19.

 

Defiance College has honored those working the front lines of the pandemic with an American flag in the for readers of The Crescent-News to place outside of their home.

 

Staff in Ohio Dominican University’s (ODU’s) Wellness Center has produced a series of videos that addresses a range of physical and mental health concerns and needs that individuals may experience during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.

Videos that highlight mental health needs and strategies feature Anne Lombardi, MA, LPCC-S, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of ODU’s Wellness Center, and Kate Levine, MA, LPC, a Licensed Professional Counselor. Counseling interns Aryn Miller, BA, CT, and Abby Fox, BA, CT, also contributed to the videos.

 

In an effort to do its part to help minimize the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the University of Mount Union has reached an agreement with the Aultman Health Foundation to temporarily house Aultman employees on its campus.

Mount Union will provide the second and third floors of King Hall, up to 40 rooms, to Aultman Alliance Community Hospital and Aultman Hospital employees who want to shorten their commutes between long shifts or want to avoid the risk of inadvertently transmitting the virus to their family members by returning to their permanent places of residence in between shifts.

Walsh University and Malone University will join Mount Union in providing isolated housing to Aultman and Mercy Medical Center.

 

Campus Buildings In-Use for Healthcare Needs

Xavier University entered into an Affiliation Agreement with TriHealth in December 2016 whereby we provide healthcare in concert with one another. Xavier has, as a part of the Affiliation Agreement, committed to TriHealth the use of any suitable and available residential rooms for TriHealth’s use in addressing patients and employees affected by COVID-19.

 

Nate Seymour, who oversees UD’s sports medicine department, uses the Clorox unit every morning to treat the areas inside UD Arena where workers from Premier Health gather before and after treating patients at the drive-up COVID-19 testing site in the arena parking lot.

“I get there at about 6:45 or 7 a.m., and the crew starts showing up around 8 or 8:30,” Seymour said. “I want to make sure I’ve disinfected the area and everything has had time to settle and dry, and then I just get out of their way so that’s one less thing they have to worry about.”

Read more on the use of UD Arena.

 

University of Rio Grande has provided their space to the community amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as shared in an Instagram post. In addition, the nursing school has communicated with the health system about utilizing our 11 patient beds.

 

Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University are collaborating to temporarily convert the main building on the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic into a fully functioning surge hospital to treat COVID-19 patients not requiring high levels of care but who are in need of hospitalization. Read more at the Cleveland Clinic Newsroom.

University Hospitals will use one of the campus’s residence halls and is looking at one of our athletic facilities for patient overflow.

 

Heidelberg University has established a quarantine space on campus with Seneca County EMA. The campus currently has 24 single units that can be utilized if needed. This designated quarantine space with be for healthcare workers and first responders to quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19 rather than taking the risk back home. Heidelberg is the first community member partnership established with EMA for quarantine.

 

Malone University is providing access to Malone running track to state policy academy so that they can finish their training. Also, the campus is welcoming local church that will hold a drive in worship service on Easter Sunday.

 

Giving Back to Students

Ohio Dominican University (ODU) has established a Student Emergency Fund to help support its students who have been impacted financially by the COVID-19 coronavirus health crisis.

Gifts made to the Student Emergency Fund will assist students by providing relief for expenses related to:

  • Basic necessities (food, toiletries, etc.)
  • Educational-related expenses
  • Technology to support remote learning and institutional support of these efforts
  • Travel or relocation expenses

To support the fund, visit ohiodominican.edu/GiveNow and select “ODU Student Emergency Fund” when asked where you would like to direct your gift.

 

Ashland University has created a fund specifically for students impacted by the pandemic. All contributions will be directed towards those who, as a result of protective measures against COVID-19, cannot afford housing, transportation, basic needs, or required resources for learning.  Learn more at the institution’s website.

 

Art Academy of Cincinnati has created the S.A.F.E fund, which will help provide resources for our students and assist to items related to housing, food, concern for their personal and emotional well-being and other essentials, unexpected early departures from campus, storage or shipping of belongings, technology to support remote learning, and institutional support of these efforts to stay safe and to stay creative. Read more at the institution’s website.

 

On April 8, Cedarville University will hold #CUGiveHope Day to raise scholarship and emergency funds for students and their families facing financial hardship brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

In response to University of Mount Union students and their families suffering hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University has launched the Mount Union COVID-19 Student Emergency Fund.

This Fund has been established under the umbrella of The Mount Union Fund, which supports students in a multitude of ways at the institution. The goal of the Student Emergency Fund is to aid the most vulnerable students with unexpected and urgent expenses related to COVID-19, with 100 percent of every dollar given aiding individual students with their most pressing needs.

 

Otterbein University announced a new COVID-19 Emergency Funding to provide relief for students coping with the widening financial ramifications of this global pandemic.