MCC Health and STEM Programs Donate PPE to Lowell General

Middlesex Community College is proud to partner with local businesses and organizations to offer help to those who need it most. The college had a surplus of critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) they donated to Lowell General Hospital (LGH) during this COVID-19 crisis.

Suzanne McHale, Chair of MCC’s Medical Laboratory Technology program and employee at LGH, orchestrated the donations along with the Biotechnology, Nursing, Dental Hygiene, Dental Assisting and Diagnostic Medical Sonography programs at the college.

“Since these PPE are not currently being used for in-person learning due to the COVID-19 shelter at home situation we are all experiencing, these articles can be better used and are desperately needed by hospitals such as Lowell General,” said Paul Patev, an MCC Biotechnology professor.

MCC students have clinical and internship experiences at LGH, thanks to the partnership the two institutions share. Students use the same PPE as hospital professionals during their laboratory and cleanroom work. The equipment – and the clinical and internship experiences – allow MCC to prepare students to work in Health and STEM related-fields upon graduation.

“This is a great thing we can do as a college – with whatever excess we have – to give to our local hospital,” McHale said. “LGH supports our healthcare programs tremendously and this is one of our ways to give back to them.”

The college was happy to donate the extra materials they had in storage, which included over 500 face masks, more than 40 boxes of gloves, 15 plus packages of lab coats, 50 face shields, over 50 bottles of hand sanitizer, nearly 50 Coveralls, over 5 containers of wipes, 900 Bouffant caps and thousands of booties.

On Monday, March 25, McHale presented the majority of the donations to Shirley Murrant, LGH’s Laboratory Director and the LGH security team – Luis Lopez Pezzotti, Tyler Michaud, Cody Krygowski and James Urbaez. She also delivered equipment to the hospital’s satellite location, the Saints Campus, on March 18 and March 25.

Visit www.lowellgeneral.org/news-and-media/news/lowell-general-hospital-is-accepting-donations to make a donation to Lowell General Hospital.

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