MEC Donates Personal Protective Equipment to INOVA Hospital

Typically the first year Physical Therapist Assistant students at our Medical Education Campus donate all of their leftover Clean Technique Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the incoming class. This spring, adjunct faculty Sydney Sawyer, lab manager Meghan Stone, and student Ted Compton all had the same idea: why not donate the PPE to INOVA Fairfax Hospital? Ted pitched the idea to the class, Ms. Stone received permission from Dean Shelly Powers and Provost Nicole Reaves to enter the campus building to retrieve the PPE (along with 6 boxes of PPE from the Respiratory Therapy program), and Ms. Sawyer inventoried it and delivered it to the hospital. The donation was fast tracked by adjunct faculty and INOVA Physical Therapy regional director Dr. Marghi Guarino. The total donation included more than 500 pairs of sterile gloves, 2000 non-sterile gloves, 300 masks and 100 gowns. Ms. Sawyer also arranged for tongue depressors to be donated to a church for craft supplies, and for gauze, tape and bandages to be delivered to a homeless shelter.