St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children employees recently donated four large bins of gently worn scrubs to benefit an international medical nonprofit.
The collection gathered scrubs for International Medical Relief (IMF), which provides healthcare to under-served and vulnerable people in more than 25 countries across the globe. The effort was coordinated by ScrubHaven, a Philadelphia supplier of scrubs.
Any donated scrubs that are too worn for reuse are repurposed by IMF into baby blankets and delivered to developing countries to be given to participants in classes that teach the essential skills of newborn resuscitation to birth attendants, to help reduce infant mortality.
About St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is a 188-bed facility providing exceptional care to children from across the Philadelphia region. Founded in 1875, the hospital has more than 200 physicians who are pediatric experts, and offers a wide array of specialties. St. Christopher’s is home to one of only three Level I pediatric trauma centers in Pennsylvania, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit—the highest level—and the only pediatric burn center between New York and Baltimore. The hospital is a Magnet® designated facility—the gold standard of nursing—and is one of the largest pediatric medical training centers in the country. For more information, visit towerhealth.org.