Blood donors often look forward to their post-donation conversation with a Bloodworks canteen volunteer as much as the juice and cookies.
Our volunteers come from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, from Gen Z to the Silent Generation, and assist Bloodworks with a variety of roles. However, retirees make up the backbone of our volunteer corp.
Given the demographics of our volunteer base and the data around those most impacted by COVID-19, Bloodworks leadership elected to suspend volunteer shifts starting in March.
However, our volunteers were not content to sit idle. They – you — asked for other ways to stay connected to Bloodworks’ lifesaving mission.
“The response did not surprise me, as they are some of our most dedicated community members,” said Naomi Howatt, Volunteer Services Program Manager. “They wanted to help! I was quickly inundated with requests by volunteers to help in some way from home.”
Bloodworks has been following local and national public health guidelines from the onset of this crisis. The CDC now recommends use of cloth masks where social distancing is difficult to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
我们已经授权了亚搏手机客户端app下载验血结果员工戴布面具,face shield, or both.
As you’ve read, commercially made surgical and N-95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) are desperately needed by high-risk heath care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been in short supply.
It’s a tall order: we need over 1,000 masks for our blood collection staff to comply with CDC’s new guidelines to stop the spread of coronavirus.
This number allows for three masks per staff member to rotate each shift: one to wear, one in the wash, and one as a backup.
Our volunteers went to work.
More than 80 volunteers from around the country, including several certified master quilters, have to date sewn 800 homemade masks for Bloodworks staff, representing 700 hours of volunteer work.
We provided instructions and a variety of mask patterns to choose from.
我们的面膜制造商可以从他们的常规项目中排出紧密织造的棉质碎屑，这有可能帮助我们保持降低成本，为某些非常有趣的设计制造。
Trina Kiyasu has been a blood and platelet donor for over a year at the Lynnwood Donor Center. Her sister, Stacey, had just gone through Bloodworks’ volunteer orientation and told her about the opportunity to sew face coverings for phlebotomists.
“After hearing there was a need for non-hospital face masks, I wanted to be able to use my skills to provide what I could,” Trina told us.
Trina has completed 19 masks so far and is sewing another 40 cut out by a volunteer who doesn’t sew.
夏洛特林是一位长期献血者，他们在2010年纠正了分析项目上的数据进入误差时开始志愿与血型造成的血迹。亚搏手机客户端app下载她从骨盆到Snoqualmie切换到血液驱动器的登记和捐赠者监测，只要他们不太早地开始 - 她是“不是一个早晨的人，并且需要在离开家之前走路和配偶。”
夏洛特感到难以糟糕的是，她的静脉瘤主义者难以维持血液供应“虽然我在家里安全地保护，”所以她签了帮助。尽管缝纫不是她最喜欢的活动，但她制造了24口面具！
特蕾西克拉格拿跑西雅图纺织公司飞溅的织物. Sewingface maskswas a natural pivot for the company, and donating a mask for every mask sold meshed well with the company’s community-driven mission.
特雷西最近掉下了500个血迹工作人员的掩模，包括一个特别的收件人：“我的侄女[长时亚搏手机客户端app下载间血液劳动员工Kellie Opdyke]把我搞定了！”
“I am honored and excited that our Mask Mission can help such important institutions as Bloodworks,” Tracy added.
More than 50 people volunteered to deliver masks to Bloodworks as well.
Our Donor Center, Volunteer Services, and Materials Management teams have been vital in coordinating these efforts and distributing masks around the organization.
Thank you, volunteers, for keeping our staff in compliance, our donors as safe as ever, and our hearts full of gratitude.
If you would like to volunteer to sew or donate masks, please contactvolunteers@bloodworksnw.org
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