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Sep 24 2020
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Black Lives Matter protesters wearing protective masks, PPE for Black Lives Fund

Honoring Breonna Taylor

By Advocacy

Get Us PPE honors and remembers Breonna Taylor.  Please consider donating directly to Breonna Taylor’s family, the Black Lives Matter movement, or Get Us PPE’s PPE for Black Lives fund, which provides free personal protective equipment to protesters and organizers of Black Lives Matter protests. Any remaining funds will be donated to healthcare and essential workers in Black communities.  If you are organizing a protest or demonstration in support of Black Lives, please use this confidential form to request PPE.  Today and always, Black Lives Matter. 

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Sep 02 2020
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Get Us PPE’s New Shortage Index Confirms Ongoing National PPE Crisis

By PPE Data, PPE Insights, Press Releases

Monthly Report of PPE Shortage Data Shows 77% of Facilities Have No Supply Remaining of One or More Types of PPE WASHINGTON, D.C. –  September 2, 2020. Get Us PPE, the nation’s largest nonprofit delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline facilities in need, today announced the launch of the PPE Shortage Index, a detailed monthly report on the ongoing PPE crisis in the United States. The Index shows that thousands of healthcare facilities and other frontline organizations are still facing alarming shortages of personal protective equipment. In August, 77% of facilities in the Get Us PPE database had no…

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May 28 2020
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HEROES Act Week of Action GetUsPPE

HEROES ACT: Week of Action 

By Advocacy

By: Varsha Venkatakrishna and Lauren Kerr GetUsPPE, alongside a coalition of labor and organizing partners, is hosting a HEROES ACT: Week of Action to urge the Senate to pass the HEROES Act (Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act). The bill is comprehensive, covering medical supply chains, employees and families, and vulnerable groups. It aims to mitigate the economic and public health effects of future stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Passing the HEROES Act will be critical in mitigating the effects of future outbreaks, particularly as states begin reopening. In its current format, the act will: Scale the national…

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May 28 2020
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Hancock Park Elementary School Students

Kindergarten Class Votes to Donate Field Trip Funds to Help Healthcare Workers

By PPE Insights, Schools

In Los Angeles, California, a year spent learning about the power of kindness has paid off for a class of kindergartners at Hancock Park Elementary.  For many students in America, the Spring 2020 semester started off like any other. Christine Choi’s class of five and six-year-olds was no exception. They were tasked with raising money for a number of field trips planned for the latter half of the semester. But when COVID-19 began to spread in early March in the U.S, many schools made the difficult decision to suspend in-person classes after Spring Break, canceling group activities, including the field…

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May 21 2020
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Get Us PPE and Supplies Save Lives Launch Nationwide PPE Donation Hotline

By News, Partners

Text “MASKS” to 844-974-2444 to donate PPE via our hotline At GetUsPPE and Supplies Save Lives, we are excited to announce that we have formed a partnership, combining efforts to get donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to the frontline healthcare workers who desperately need it. Through our joint efforts, we are offering a nationwide text hotline: anyone who has PPE to donate can text “MASKS” to 844-974-2444. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have been facing critical shortages of the PPE they need to stay safe. This includes masks, gowns, face shields, and other equipment. Supplies Save…

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May 11 2020
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Face Shield Distribution

Get Us PPE Delivers One Million Face Shields to Healthcare Facilities Nationwide

By Impact Stories, Press Releases

– Medical Device Manufacturer Boston Scientific Mobilizes to Fuel Face Shield Donation in Response to COVID-19 – BOSTON – May 11, 2020 – GetUsPPE, a leading volunteer organization connecting healthcare providers with supplies of PPE (personal protective equipment), has delivered one million face shields to healthcare facilities around the United States. Shields manufactured and donated by medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) were distributed by partners including Amazon to healthcare facilities in more than 40 U.S. states and territories. With the help of a team of national volunteers and regional affiliate organizations, GetUsPPE identified the healthcare facilities with the highest…

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Apr 20 2020
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Get Us PPE and Project N95 Announce the Demand Data Hub, a National Partnership to Centralize Requests for Personal Protective Equipment

By News, PPE Data, Press Releases
The two largest organizations in the US focused on the supply and matching of PPE join forces to increase delivery to our front-line healthcare heroes The Demand Data Hub combines the extensive PPE demand databases from both GetUsPPE and Project N95 into the nation’s authoritative source for PPE demand data  BOSTON, MA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA - April 20, 2020 – GetUsPPE and Project N95, two leading relief organizations addressing the critical shortage of PPE supply, announce the establishment of a national partnership to more efficiently source, match, and deliver Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to healthcare providers. With this partnership,...
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Apr 20 2020
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The Demand Data Hub: Powering a Collaborative PPE Supply Chain

By Health Equity, PPE Data
The power of strength in numbers is well documented throughout the history of grassroots organizing and coalition building. In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis, our numbers are derived not only from the tremendous volunteer networks who are working to bolster PPE supply chains and protect our healthcare workers, but from our actual data sets. To amplify our strengths, Project N95 and GetUsPPE are thrilled to announce our Demand Data Hub partnership. By merging our two leading PPE demand databases, the Demand Data Hub now contains more than 7,000 requests for PPE from American healthcare providers, and is the authoritative...
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Apr 10 2020
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Hoopers Meet Heroes: Pistons’ Langston Galloway and Detroit’s Dr. Sara Hegab

By CloseUp360, Partners
Healthcare professionals on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic risk their lives every day to save patients. They are the heroes. But, amidst the pandemic, they are dealing with their own crisis. Many healthcare professionals are facing an imminent shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). The need for PPE is especially dire in cities bracing for or enduring surges in COVID-19 cases. CloseUp360's “Hoopers Meet Heroes” video series connects NBA players with healthcare professionals. In each video, a player discusses the pandemic and the PPE shortage crisis with a healthcare professional in their city. In this video from the...
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Apr 09 2020
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Hoopers Meet Heroes: Hornets’ Terry Rozier and UNC’s Dr. Olga Otter

By CloseUp360, Partners
Healthcare professionals on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic risk their lives every day to save patients. They are the heroes. But, amidst the pandemic, they are dealing with their own crisis. Many healthcare professionals are facing an imminent shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). The need for PPE is especially dire in cities bracing for or enduring surges in COVID-19 cases. CloseUp360's “Hoopers Meet Heroes” video series connects NBA players with healthcare professionals. In each video, a player discusses the pandemic and the PPE shortage crisis with a healthcare professional in their city. In this video from the...
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