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Five regional hospitals were the recent benefactors of more than $5,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) after the Dublin Unified School District community banded together for the effort, following the announcement of the shelter-in-place order in effect through May 3.
The Dublin High School science department and staff including Principal Maureen Byrne and Assistant Principal Paul Faris, the DHS Parent Faculty Student Organization (PFSO), and local residents gave the donations to several labor and delivery departments throughout the Bay Area including Highland Hospital in Alameda County, Contra Costa County Hospital, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center–the second largest county-owned hospital in California with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases. Donations to Valley Medical Center also ended up serving two other Santa Clara County hospitals.
Each site received 10,000 gloves, several hundred eye goggles, and assorted masks and hand sanitizer from community donations. Upon receiving the supplies, DUSD said, “Doctors and nurses were moved to tears and were very grateful for the donations” and that “none of this would be possible without our DHS PFSO.”
“When asked to underwrite this project (replacement estimates are approximately $5,000), they responded with a supportive yes,” district officials said. “We are in this pandemic together and by working together, we support each other.”