Community Resource Drive

Calvert County and CalvertHealth Medical Center (CHMC) are actively working together to ensure the health and safety of its residents. While CalvertHealth Medical Center currently has the supplies needed to care for its patients and protect its staff, the county and the medical center are looking to increase supplies and take proactive measures for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic.

Community members and local businesses can assist in the following ways.

Donations of Medical Materials and Supplies:

• Unopened containers of hand sanitizer
• Unopened bleach wipes
• Unopened boxes of surgical masks
• Unopened boxes of N95 masks
• Unopened boxes of exam gloves
• Unopened boxes of isolation or procedure gown

If you have supplies to donate, please contact CHMC’s Director of Patient Experience Susan Stevens at susan.stevens@calverthealthmed.org so that arrangements can be made to collect the donations. Please note that all items must be unopened materials.

The hospital is also accepting donations of homemade gowns and masks. The Centers for Disease Control have guidance for these masks which can be used for patients and healthcare workers who have a low-risk of exposure.

Give the gift of blood. Those who are healthy and asymptomatic (no fever, cough, sore throat, etc.) can schedule an appointment to give blood through the American Red Cross at redcross.org. The Red Cross is anticipating critical blood shortages throughout this crisis and your gift has the potential to save up to three lives.

Give the gift of hope. Share words of gratitude and encouragement with the CalvertHealth team by dropping a line in the submission form located on our website. You can leave a kind word, inspiring message or upload an image or document. We will ensure your messages are shared with our workforce.

For more ways that the community can assist, visit: https://www.calverthealthmedicine.org/Ways-You-Can-Help