COVID-19 How You Can Help

Building Resilience: Help Ease the Strain of a Global Pandemic on UCLA Health’s Frontline Medical Professionals

We are deeply appreciative of the outpouring of support and offers of food, gift cards, and other assistance to our caregivers. To relieve the logistical burden on our healthcare workers who are focused on patient care at this time, the best way you can help is to donate a gift card through our Gift Card Drive.

PPE and In-Kind Product Donations

UCLA Health also seeks in-kind donations of products to protect our front-line providers and the patients we care for. Our need for personal protective equipment evolves on a daily basis as our hospitals and clinics respond to the crisis.

To ensure we are fueling our frontline in compliance with the hospital's Food Health & Safety Protocol, we ask donors and restaurants to adhere to the following criteria:

• All food must be individually packaged and nut free
• No communal meals, including trays of food and large pizzas
• We kindly request that a portion of the meals be vegetarian
• No raw fish (i.e. sushi, poke)
• No large product donations that require refrigeration (i.e. certain coffee drinks and ice cream donations are approved case-by-case)
• All food must be delivered at food safety temperatures of 41 degrees or lower or 140 degrees or higher
• We cannot accept meal or product quantities under 50 items at this time and generally nothing over 1,500 items
• All food providers must have a valid Health Department Permit

All donations must be unused and unopened, as they will need to be reviewed to meet infection control approval standards. For your safety and the safety of our health care staff, we cannot accept any in-person drop-offs at any of our medical centers, emergency rooms, testing sites, or clinics. Please note that we have opened a limited-hour UCLA Health COVID-19 PPE Collection Center in Van Nuys.

Click here for more information on hours, location, safety requirements, and directions for drop off.

If you are interested in receiving a tax receipt for your in-kind donation, please fill out this form and submit a copy with a scanned receipt or invoice indicating the item(s)’ value to Noah Green at ngreen@support.ucla.edu.

For any donation of product not included on this list, please submit inquiries to covid19PPEsupport@mednet.ucla.edu

The Crisis: A Global Pandemic Is Here

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) a pandemic. COVID-19 is one of the most urgent public health crises in generations. We must act now to understand the development of the disease, how it is transmitted, contained, and ultimately, halted.

Los Angeles is on the front line of defense against community spread. Scientists and medical and public-health professionals have been preparing for such a pandemic and are working together creatively to tackle this novel pathogen, learn from it, overcome it, and prevent new outbreaks in Los Angeles and around the world.

UCLA Health coronavirus updates are available here >

The UCLA Health Strategy: Patient Care, Research, Education, and Community

COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis, to be sure, straining healthcare systems globally. To address the ongoing and emerging needs of the public, UCLA is implementing an emergency preparedness strategy for COVID-19. We are:

• Expanding capacity to care for an influx of patients
• Examining the genesis of this virus to halt its spread
• Training professionals to manage highly infectious diseases
• Leading research and discovery to develop vaccines

UCLA continues to define the research and care landscape that puts our community and its residents first.

For more information, please contact:

Ellen Haddigan-Durgun
Senior Executive Director, Hospital Initiatives
UCLA Health Sciences Development
Mobile: (310) 321-8366
Email: ehaddigan@support.ucla.edu
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