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A critical lifeline Recognizing that COVID-19 patients likely wouldn’t think to bring their cell phone chargers to the ER with them, UIC Nursing clinical instructor Megan Cairns Tress, MS ’18, FNP, started a fundraising campaign to buy and deliver chargers to area hospitals. “[The patients] can’t have any visitors," Tress says. "If they can’t use their phones, they’ve lost that vital contact point.” She quickly raised enough to buy 700 chargers in three days—more than enough for every bed at UI Hospital and West Suburban Medical Center—and her efforts garnered media attention as she took her initiative national, delivering chargers to hospitals across 10 states.
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