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Valley Medical Center Foundation: Serving Our Communities Through the Coronavirus
Chris Wilder on screen
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E. Christopher Wilder,
CEO
Valley Medical Center Foundation
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During normal times our job is to raise money from the community around us, and provide for our Medical Center.
We start new programs, we beautify the hospital, we provide services.
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Graphic: Map of Bay Area hospital locations popping on as red dots
When the coronavirus came upon us, everything changed.
We realized, we're going to be the central place where all these donations are flowing, and we better not just limit it to the hospitals in the health system that we normally support, but all the hospitals around us.
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And so, we began taking in PPE. And literally every day, our offices would fill with boxes.
Text On Screen: Valley Medical distributed 2 million + PPE items
We began taking in equipment everything from isolation gowns to shoe-coverings,
Text On Screen: 49,000 face shields were designed and assembled by teams at Google
…to face shields.
We were taking in ventilators.
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Photo: three health care workers wearing masks standing in a semi-circle
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Logo on screen: Silicon Valley Leadership Foundation
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But then, as things began to disappear, we had some people calling us and saying, “Hey, we're having trouble buying things for you. Can we make them?
And, “Can we partner with your physicians and your surgeons,
to make sure we're making them right?”
It was more collaborative than I've ever seen it.
Nobody operates in silos.
When the Silicon Valley Leadership Foundation approached us about partnering, it was the best partner we could have had, and we're meeting the urgent needs of this community.
Not just for the people on the front lines, taking care of patients in hospitals. Sometimes it's the people in East San Jose who are struggling. It's people who aren't getting the assistance that some folks are getting.
B-Roll: woman wearing mask in front of boxes of homemade masks; woman in front of shelves; woman with two kids smiling
You know there is great wealth out here in Silicon Valley. And I think, in a time like this, we're seeing the very best in what our community has to offer, because people are coming together and they're helping us meet the needs.
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We're all in this together, so, it's no surprise that Bank of America stepped up the way that it did.
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Bank of America provided the Valley Medical Center Foundation with $550,000 in grants to support operations in communities across the Silicon Valley and the State of California
And they got involved, right away.
We were able to source equipment and supplies, that just a couple of weeks later, suddenly had dried up… and we couldn't find anywhere.
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Photo: Nurse wearing face shield gives peace sign
Money allows us to pivot— and provide for the needs as they change, weekly and sometimes daily.
It’s the way we’ve stayed ahead of the curve.
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The grants to the Valley Medical Center Foundation are part of Bank of America’s additional $100 million commitment to help local communities impacted by the coronavirus
Learn more at about.bankofamerica.com
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