District 99 Students Donate Gloves, Respirators To Local Hospital

DOWNERS GROVE, IL — As the current new coronavirus outbreak puts personal protective equipment in short supply for medical personnel, Community High School District 99 is stepping up to help. Students from the district recently donated personal protective equipment to aid workers at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.

The students donated the following items to the hospital:

• 30,000 nitrile gloves
• Four face respirators with 11 packages of OV/P100 cartridges
• A supply of indirect vented goggles from the science departments
• Six tyvek suits

In a statement, District 99 Superintendent Hank Thiele said, "We realized that everyday items in our reserves would be valuable on the front line, and reached out to our local partner Good Samaritan Hospital to arrange to donate the items. All of us respect and appreciate our local health care workers and the difficult work they are performing to keep us safe and strong through this crisis."

Kate Magee, a supply chain manager at Advocate Good Samaritan wrote, "We are so grateful to Community High School District 99 for this generous gesture. Our team members at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital are the heroes on the frontlines of this nationwide effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, and every act of kindness and generosity does so much to keep their spirits up."