As our healthcare professionals have stepped up to the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, our communities have rallied behind us in extraordinary ways. Together, we can emerge from our current challenges not only whole, but better and stronger because of them.

Our doctors and nurses, care techs and allied health professionals, cleaning staff and transport personnel are working tirelessly to save lives while putting their own health in jeopardy. Its up to us to provide them with the tools they need to continue doing what they do or, as they humbly remind us, what they train for.

Currently, our highest priority needs include: ventilators; critical care beds; hand-held ultrasound machines; IV poles, pumps and tubing; patient monitors; feeding pumps and tubing; thermometers; and cleaning equipment.

Also needed are donations of: isolation gowns (level 2, 3 or 4); bleach, alcohol wipes; sterile surgical gloves; and headbands with buttons to hold masks in place.