PPE

Two VA nurses joined forces to help staff and residents at NJ State Veterans Homes in Paramus and Menlo Park. Part of VA’s Fourth mission to support the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

VA health care supply chain and medical logistician professionals move life-saving PPE to health care workers where it was most needed. The Secretary’s Center for Strategic Partnerships made it happen.

VA is taking action to ensure that all Veterans, including older Veterans, are protected from COVID-19 and receive high-quality testing and care, no matter who they are or where they get their care.

VA’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) doesn’t interact with patients, but it’s critical to the cause of serving Veterans. At the Roseburg VA Health Care System (RVAHCS), the SCM keeps frontline providers equipped with masks, face shields and clinical gowns.

Denise Dulude retired in January 2020 after 37 years with VA. Then her former supervisor called and asked if she wanted to come back. “Of course. If I can help, I want to be there.”

A FedEx cargo plane arrived at Manchester Airport stocked to the brim with 110,000 pounds of PPE destined for frontline health care workers.