TCC donates supplies to local hospitals

TULSA, OK -- By the truck load and van load, Tulsa Community College (TCC) donated badly needed personal protective equipment to area hospitals to protect health care workers amid dwindling supplies and, in some cases, shortages.

This equipment, including masks, gloves and gowns, are used in simulation and lab areas for students in TCC’S Nursing and Allied Health Programs. These workforce programs have advisory boards with members from area hospitals and health care providers in northeast Oklahoma. Several members of the advisory board in need of personal protective equipment for health care workers reached out to TCC faculty regarding the college’s supplies, while others posted a call on social media.

These hospitals are TCC’S education partners that offer clinical experiences, provide instructors, and offer paid internships for TCC students during a typical school year. They also donate supplies they can no longer use for students to practice in the lab setting.

TCC is doing what it can to help take care of the region’s health care workers so they can take care of the college’s students. With the college moving to remote operations and online academic work as much as possible, students will not be on campus and will not be using these supplies, so they are being given to those who truly need them during this crisis.

Playing a key role in the effort to collect and distribute are Dean of Nursing Jenny Fields, MS, RN, BC; Dean of Allied Health Debbie Batson, RDH, NBCT, MS; Simulation Coordinator Janet Pitt, RN; and Metro Campus Provost Angela Sivadon, PHD, RN.