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Thanks to the generosity of donors, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital is providing funding for a study of an innovative, home-based cardiac rehabilitation (HCR) program to help patients recover during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the most prized possessions that new students receive at Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College is their first stethoscope. It comes inside a “health assessment” tote bag with other items they will soon learn how to use.   

Blackout Melanoma made a $5,000 donation to The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital to aid the hospital’s response to COVID-19.

By partnering with The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Dr. Chung was able to provide meals to hospital departments where they were needed the most.

Among provisions designed to lighten the economic burden of COVID-19, the CARES Act includes important measures to incentivize charitable giving for both individuals and corporations.

More than 11,000 meals have been delivered to Barnes-Jewish Hospital workers since April 1, thanks to the generosity of a wide variety of donors that include restaurants, corporations, and grateful patients and their families. The donations are coming in daily and being coordinated by The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Logistics Liaisons.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital is providing funding for iPads that will enable BJC HealthCare patients to stay connected virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thanks to generous donors, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital helped researchers at Washington University School of Medicine researchers be among the first in the country to test whether blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors can be used to successfully treat critically ill coronavirus patients.

As health care workers across the globe face the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership of our nurses is more important than ever. The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, along with our partners across the system, would like to thank these professionals and encourage the community to support their work.

Now more than ever, generosity is uniting people across the globe as communities find creative ways to show support, through sidewalk chalk and yard signs, meals for our frontline medical teams, city-wide rallies in honor of essential workers, and donations to support BJC HealthCare’s response efforts.