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The William S. Hart Union High School District is planning to donate approximately 30,000 “long-forgotten” surgical masks to three area hospitals, officials said Tuesday.
Earlier this week, a district nurse conducted an inventory of the warehouse to determine what supplies were on-hand to respond to the coronavirus, said Mike Kuhlman, superintendent for the Hart District.
“Back in the corner of the warehouse, covered in dust, was a long-forgotten pallet of boxed surgical masks ordered over a decade ago,” Kuhlman said. “Opening the boxes, she was astonished to find thousands of masks in pristine condition and ready to be used.”
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The Hart District has arranged to have 30,000 much-needed masks delivered to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, Providence Holy Cross and Northridge Hospitals, according to Hart District officials.
“I know I speak for all of us when I say that we send them with heartfelt gratitude to those who are on the front lines of this battle with the coronavirus,” Kuhlman said.
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Why are the masks leaving the district? The district taxpayers paid for the masks – the vast majority should be donated to Henry Mayo!
I understand why some masks are donated to Holy Cross as many in the SCV use Holy Cross and Facey (same parent operating entity – Providence). Why were zero masks not distributed to Olive View and instead directed to Northridge?
Through the years, I have had employees who were pushed/sent to use Olive View – as Henry Mayo would not take them as patients – most likely for lack of acceptable insurance. The front line employees at Olive View could certainly use the masks as well as Holy Cross with it’s ties to the SCV.
Thank you to the Hart district for the donation – but the vast majority of the masks should stay within the SCV – and not farmed out to Northridge!
Hopefully, newly promoted superintendent Kuhlman will provide more “color” as to how many masks were distributed to each hospital. Because of the heightened environment we are currently operating in – and the unusually large number of masks that were found – were school board members informed/polled or asked for guidance about the donation?
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Cant you just
Can you please stop whining about who gets the masks and try to remember that we are All in this together.
Please check with Saugus Union school district , all schools have emergency storage bins
Olive View in Sylmar is desperately needing these, if there is any left.
Cindi Rowley, we have a supplier for N95 masks and PPE gear, does Olive View want to purchase items? Currently they are hard to get anywhere while the government is gearing up and NY is taking most of the donations. A real N95 certified mask is $10, in bulk maybe down to $7.50. 30,000 of these to donate is significant.
Glad they have the masks to donate. Now investigate why they had them in storage to begin with.
Why were over $30,000.00 worth of masks bought to begin with?
Just another example of how the school system wastes our tax dollars. I will never vote for a school to get more of my tax dollars. The school system is just too wasteful. From what I see, that was at least
$30,000.00 worth of tax payer money wasted sitting in storage. Probably worth more. Administrators
just see it as Government Money to spend. Well it isn’t. It is money from taxes from hard working citizens. Wont not be shocked if in a month of so an administrator says, hey, we don’t have any masks. Lets order some more. How about 30,000.00 of them. We have the money. We don’t need them. Lets just put them in storage. We might need them some day.
Those masks I suspect were there probably for drastic emergency situations such as an earthquake or perhaps a pandemic. Hopefully, they will get replaced after the COVID-10 Virus. If there is a lot of waste that schools do, I don’t see much proof. Stop complaining and be part of the solution not the problem. Go do something nice for a school or a hospital and then you will see how hard these people work.