Staff Report
Many individuals and organizations are reaching out to Cottage Health to offer support through donations of medical supplies. Cottage is extremely grateful to the organizations and local businesses who have provided supplies to help restock protective equipment for healthcare workers providing care at the hospitals.
Although work began early to manage and conserve supplies, the COVID-19 situation is evolving day by day. The global demand has overwhelmed the limited supplies being manufactured by some of the typical supply chain.
Based on market supply availability and projected usage, Cottage anticipates supply challenges for protective equipment including: medical goggles, face shields, protective masks and gowns.
Cottage Health will be accepting donations of medical supplies in case they are needed in coming weeks.
It is important that members of the public do not enter hospital lobbies to make supply donations. Hospitals are under a health officer order not to allow visitors.
Cottage Health will open a central drop-off center for donations of supplies on Tuesday, March 24 at the parking area adjacent to:
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
351 South Patterson Ave Goleta, CA
The drop-off center will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, for an undetermined number of days as the local COVID-19 situation and need for supplies becomes clearer.
Supplies in original, unopened packaging are particularly sought.
Supplies being accepted include:
- Faces shields – single use or non-disposable
- Eye shields – single use or non-disposable
- Isolation Gowns or Standard level 3 gowns
- N95 Masks
- N99 Masks
- Standard Procedure Masks
- Re-usable P100 / N95 Respirators and cartridges/filters
- Respirator Hoods or Hazmat Hoods
At this point, sewn cloth masks are not being accepted.
For questions regarding items other than those listed above, please contact David Dietrich, Vice President for Advancement, ddietric@sbch.org or 805-569-7345.
About Cottage Health www.cottagehealth.org
The not-for-profit Cottage Health is the leader in providing advanced medical care to the Central Coast region. Specialties include the Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital. The Cottage Health medical staff is comprised of more than 700 physicians, many with subspecialties typically found only at university medical centers. Last year, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 21,000 people, treated 80,000 patients through their 24-hour emergency departments and helped deliver 2,100 newborns.
