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BNF to donate 350,000 masks to US hospitals for COVID-19

06 Apr '20
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Barco’s Nightingales Foundation (BNF) has announced that it will be donating 350,000 masks to four California hospital organisations that are treating patients infected with COVID-19. In 2008, BNF was founded by Barco’s chairman of the board, Michael Donner, and his wife Frida, in hopes of lifting-up the lives of children all around the world.

The masks have been procured and paid for by BNF. Hospitals receiving the mask donations include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA Hospitals, Keck Medicine of USC Hospitals, Stanford Health Care, and Kaiser Permanente of Northern California.

“It’s our privilege to pay honour to the nurses and healthcare professionals who sacrifice so much to help keep the rest of us safe. Our mission now is to support them through this crisis, and we’re grateful to have located and purchased these 350,000 masks to be donated to some of the most vital medical organisations in our state,” Donner said in a press release.

By increasing awareness and appreciation for the work of nurses, BNF hopes to inspire more young women and men to enter the profession. It continues to do life-changing work for children around the world, including sending kids with cancer to camp, building solar water wells and providing children in Haiti with hot lunches. The foundation also actively supports the work of Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times.

BNF is supported by an advisory board of business professionals and volunteers and a Nurse’s Advisory Council that provides insight and guidance into the critical needs of the nursing profession as well as counsel on programmes designed to help children and their families across the world.

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