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Hollywood Costume Maker Provides Medical Uniforms To Local Hospitals
The Motion Picture Costume Company outfits medical uniforms for filming in hospitals, and now they are protecting real hospital workers.
BURBANK (CBSLA) – Although Hollywood is feeling the pain of the economic shutdown along with the rest of the nation, a Burbank-based costume maker is doing what it can to provide healthcare workers with personal protective equipment.
The Motion Picture Costume Company outfits a lot of the medical uniforms for shows and movies set in hospitals. It has trailers filled with scrubs, suits and medical gowns that are unused. When its owners saw that hospitals were running out of PPE, the company put out a notice out on social media offering its supplies for free.
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Dr. Angelique Campen with Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank has been wearing Tyvec suits she received from the company.
“Nobody has put their health at risk, nobody has put their life in danger, and no patient has suffered for lack of PPE,” Campen told CBS2. “That’s not to say we are well supplied. We are being creative in how we stretch the lifespan of that PPE safely.”
