Past Initiatives
Increasing Resilience and Well-Being Workshop
Date: April 29, 2020
As a response to the demands COVID-19 put on health care professionals, this training provided an opportunity to strengthen resilience and reduce caregiver fatigue by teaching self-care strategies that support mental health and well-being.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Drive
Dates: April 6-24
With support from North Idaho AHEC, Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program students organized a PPE supply drive to help hospitals, clinics and first responders around Moscow, Pullman and surrounding areas. The students called 150 small medical clinics, dental and veterinary offices, construction companies and research labs to round up excess PPE inventory. In addition, WWAMI students helped coordinate an online inventory survey and staffed a drop-off point on campus where the local community to safely donate materials.
Materials donated were:
- 90 surgical masks
- 170 N95 masks
- 2,232 gloves (in varying sizes)
- 2 goggles
- 1 face shield
Thank you, Donors!
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the following businesses and individuals who have donated materials to the WWAMI PPE Drive. Thank you for helping us in our mission to protect Palouse health care workers.
- Cedar Veterinary Hospital
- Jonathan Hickling
- Jason Bryant
- Jennifer Snodgrass
- Bailey Vail
- Dr. Jeff Seegmiller
- Anonymous Donors
- University of Idaho Canola Program
- Dr. Peter Fuerst
- Michael McGriff