Thankful Thursday: a group of students from Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine spent their weekend making 224 travel sized bottles of hand sanitizer that will be donated to the Mescalero Tribe.

Southern NM, if you haven't donated PPE your chance to do so is coming up! Students from Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine are teaming up w/Protect NM to collect your donations. You have 4 opportunities to donate on Saturday, August 29th. Locations and times are below.

This week we'd like to thank AERO Healthcare USA for their donation of 288 gallons (4,608 8oz bottles) of hand sanitizer! NM Covid-19 is getting this into the hands of New Mexicans to deliver to the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Community and the Bosque School in Albuquerque. #ThankfulThursday

Thankful Thursday: We would like to highlight Protect NM's Las Cruce's chapter, students from Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine for delivering PPE to Southern New Mexicans.

Thanks to Wes Miller from the Rio Grande Program Management Institute. A consummate volunteer with NM Covid-19, Wes delivered hand sanitizer donated by AERO Healthcare USA to our local Meals on Wheels chapter and the NM Veterans Integration Center (NMVIC)! #ThankfulThursday

Thanks Wes Miller from the pmi.org/membership/cha…. A consummate volunteer with the collaborative, Wes delivered Hand Sanitizer donated by AERO Healthcare USA to our local Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque and the NMVIC

A big thank you to Beth Barrett representing NM HIMSS for coordinating our donation drop offs to La Puerto De Los Ninos and Apex Vibrancy Center.

Thanks to Beth Barret from NM HIMSS for delivering Hand Sanitizer (supplied by Dr. Danielle Turner and Dr. Snezna Rogelj of New Mexico Tech ) to After Hours Pediatrics (after-hours-pediatrics.com)

We would like to thank Beth Barrett and Santana Ortiz for delivering hand sanitizer to Meals on Wheels of Albuquerque and First Nations!

Thanks NM Rural Hospital Network nmrhn.net for helping us distribute 450 donated surgical masks and 120 donated isolation coveralls to Nor-Lea Hospital District, Miners Colfax in Raton, NM, and Union County General Hospital in Clayton, NM

Thanks to bigbyte.cc for helping us get a bunch of face shields (donated by New Mexico Tech Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center) to the New Mexico Secretary of State for distribution to poll workers.

Thanks NM HIMSS for hosting Gabe Mounce and Jason Jarvis to discuss our efforts through the collaborative for Health Equity Week! youtu.be/0Q0dY0HmLFA

Exciting day! With the help of bigbyte.cc, we were able to get 75,000 face masks from an anonymous donor to the Indian Pueblo center for distribution to NM native communities through their Pueblo Relief Fund.

Southern New Mexico: Protect NM is in need of PPE at their #LasCruces location! Drop-off any PPE at the red bin in front of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine: 3501 Arrowhead Dr. Las Cruces, NM 88001

Working with the group at NMRHN were able to donate 36,000 KN95 masks to our rural hospitals. nmrhn.net

We'd like to share our metrics from over the past year that our collaborative has been up and running. We would like to thank all of our partners throughout New Mexico, our various donors and everyone who has helped deliver PPE. We couldn't have done it without you!