Log in

Banner Health accepting donated medical supplies, other equipment

Posted 3/29/20

The Banner Health Foundation is now collecting medical supplies and personal protective equipment in partnership with Project C.U.R.E. in Tempe. 

You must be a member to read this story.

Join our family of readers for as little as $5 per month and support local, unbiased journalism.


Already have an account? Log in to continue.

Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here

Otherwise, follow the link below to join.

To Our Valued Readers –

Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.

For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.

Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.

Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.

Sincerely,
Charlene Bisson, Publisher, Independent Newsmedia

Please log in to continue

Log in
I am anchor

Banner Health accepting donated medical supplies, other equipment

Posted

The Banner Health Foundation is now collecting medical supplies and personal protective equipment in partnership with Project C.U.R.E. in Tempe. 

Donations can be dropped off 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday at 2100 W. 14th St., Building T3 in Tempe. The building is located just west of 52nd Street between Broadway Road and University Drive. Look for the Project C.U.R.E signs.

Donated supplies will be deployed in Banner Health’s Arizona hospitals and medical centers.

The following unused items are needed. All donations must be in an unopened, sealed box or container:

  • Masks (N95 and surgical/procedural)
  • Disinfecting wipes (Clorox, Lysol, other brands)
  • Alcohol-based cleaning wipes such Sanicloth wipes
  • Non-latex gloves (nitrile)
  • Protective face shields or goggles that can be worn over glasses
  • Isolation, surgical or cover gowns, and protective Tyvek or similar fabric disposable coveralls.
  • Head and shoe covers
  • Non-perfumed hand sanitizer appropriate for use in a clinical setting, with greater than 60% ethanol alcohol or 70% isopropanol (No gels containing glitter, please)
  • Paper towels
  • Liquid hand soap
  • Homemade masks for optional social-comfort use by Banner’s health care workers (Note these will not be worn by providers directly caring for COVID-19 patients, nor in any procedure rooms or isolation areas.)

Banner Health Foundation is requesting donations of these items from businesses and/or community members who have supplies they do not currently need. Members of the community are not being asked to purchase new items for donation.

However, monetary donations can be made online to support Banner’s COVID-19 response efforts and health care workers.

To keep volunteers and donors safe, people bringing donations should pack the items into the trunk of their car and pull into the donation line. Leave windows up and do not get out of the vehicle. A volunteer will unload the items. All people at the site are advised to practice social distancing by keeping at least 6 feet apart. Anyone who is experiencing flu-like symptoms, cough or fever should not come to this donation site.

Banner Health is also accepting donations of medical supplies and PPE in Payson, using a different process. Those donations can be made to Banner Payson Medical Center, at a table set up in front of the Administration building, 807 S. Ponderosa St. Hours are 9 a.m.-noon Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“Amid this unprecedented time in our history, it has been incredible to witness the generosity of our community members who want to give back,” said Andy Kramer Petersen, President and CEO of the Banner Health Foundation. “We continue to be inspired by the many people, groups and companies offering to help, even while caring for their own families in these rapidly shifting times. We hope to make it as easy as possible for them.”

Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system owns and operates 28 acute-care hospitals, Banner Health Network, Banner – University Medicine, academic and employed physician groups, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services; including Banner Urgent Care, family clinics, home care and hospice services, pharmacies and a nursing registry.

Banner Health is in six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.

Click here to learn more about Project C.U.R.E. and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.