LCCC donates medical supplies to area hospitals

ELYRIA — Lorain County Community College donated hundreds of boxes of medical supplies to four Lorain County hospitals on Wednesday: Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital, Mercy Health's Lorain and Allen hospital locations and University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center, in an effort to assist with an on-going shortage of supplies due to COVID-19. The supplies included nitrile gloves, surgery masks, sterile gowns, surgical scrub caps and reusable eye shields from the college's allied health and nursing education program and the micro electromechanical systems program. "Throughout this pandemic, we are taking measures to ensure the health and safety of our students and our community," said LCCC President Marcia Ballinger in a press release. "Donating these supplies to hospitals in need is simply one more way for us to do our part in the fight against coronavirus." Due to orders from Gov. Mike DeWine, LCCC announced recently that remote delivery of courses would extend for the remainder of the spring semester to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The hands-on component of these courses are not in session, freeing up supplies for community use. "We are the community's college; our mission is to serve the greatest needs of our community. Right now, there is no greater need than protecting the health of our community," Ballinger said. "I look forward to resuming our training of the next generation of healthcare workers and first responders, but until then I am pleased that our supplies can be used to protect those on the front lines of this battle – our healthcare workers, and many of them are LCCC graduates."