COVID Chronicle

COV ID- 19 INNOVAT ION

With supplies drying up from our usual vendors, we began looking for unusual sources – and we found some right in our own backyard!

Northern Light Supply Chain and Clinical Engineering also began talks with University of Maine to test masking materials and Maine Manufacturing Association to identify local manufacturers that could produce face shields and procedure masks, supplementing our diminishing supplies. Also, Ford Motor Company, in partnership with 3M began designing and producing urgently needed medical equipment. They sent us 5,000 face shields! As consumers throughout America struggled to find hand sanitizer to help slow and prevent the spread of viruses, hospitals too found their supplies drying. Northern Light Pharmacy immediately began making hand sanitizer, but the raw materials they needed were back ordered. A new relationship developed with Maine distillers, University of Maine’s chemistry lab, and Poland Spring to make and bottle sanitizer. After establishing a solid process, we made sure other hospitals also had a steady supply.

We partnered with Ntension Corp, based in Hermon, to manufacture face masks and face shields, and Poly-Tech Solutions and Flowfold, both based in Gorham, to make face shields.

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