Sunflower Health providing PPE

A Kansas company is supplying employees with necessary PPE across Kansas.

STRIKE.AS THE NEED CONTINUESFOR PERSONALPROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT,COMPANIES ARE STEPPINGIN TO PROVIDE THEM TOPEOPLE ANDORGANIZATIONS WHONEED IT MOST.41 ACTION NEWSREPORTER RAE DANIEL ISLIVE TO TELL US HOW ONECOMPANY IS WORKING TOPROVIDE THOUSANDS OFPPE FOR THOSE IN THESTATE OF KANSAS.

RAE?SUNFLOWER HEALTH PLANHAS HAD ITS FOCUS ONCAREGIVERS WHO ARE ATTHE NURSING FACILITIES,CARING FOR THE ELDERLYTHE ELDERLY OR THOSEWHO ARE IN NEED OFLONG TERM SERVICE ANDSUPPORT...ALL ACROSSTHE STATE OF KANSASWE CAUGHT UP WITHTHEM THE OTHER DAY ANDTHEY WERE DELIVERINGPPE TO THE JOHNSONCOUNTY COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENTALDISABILITIESORGANIZATION.THIS ORGANIZATIONSERVES AS A single POINTOF ENTRY FOR PEOPLEWHO NEED INTELLECTUALAND DEVELOPMENTALDISABILITYSERVICES....THEY WORKWITH 3000 PEOPLE INTHEIR NETWORK.IN JOHNSON COUNTYALONE, SUNFLOWERHEALTH PLAN HAS BEENABLE TO PROVIDE 75,000MASKS FOR THIS AREA.OUR corporate company sinteenhas been purchasing large bulksofppe AND allowing the individualhealth plan and individualstates toget it out to those people whoselfdirect their care into our homeandcommunity base and our nursingfacilitiesWe have a lot of indivuals wholive incongregate settings and grouphomes and so these masks for tstaff to protect them with theindividuals is really importantSUNFLOWER HEALTH PLANHAS MADE ITS WAYACROSS THE STATE OFKANSAS -- SO FAR THEY'VEDISTRIBUTED MORE THAN450,000 PPE.

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