Amazon will donate more than 1,750 lunches to health care workers at Virginia Hospital Center on May 14, and it is buying the meals from businesses along Crystal City’s 23rd Street South restaurant row. Amazon has pledged to buy a total of 10,000 meals from Arlington restaurants in May, giving restaurants a total of $200,000 worth of business. This week’s donations are in honor of National Hospital Week.
In honor of National Hospital Week, Tony Burchard, President of the Virginia Hospital Center Foundation, spoke to FOX 5 DC about the messages of support and contributions that VHC has received from the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you’ve been putting off an important diagnostic test or surgery because of the coronavirus, doctors at Virginia Hospital Center urge you to go ahead and schedule it now that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has given hospitals the green light to resume elective medical procedures.
Dr. Rohit Modak, VHC’s Chief of Infectious Diseases, spoke to the Richmond Times Dispatch about the state of COVID-19 cases at VHC and the Hospital’s plans for balancing providing regular medical care with preparing for a possible future surge in COVID-19
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