Rolling Hills Casino creates homemade PPE gear for health care workers at clinic

A group of women are working to make sure our health care workers get the supplies they need.

Women are working to make sure our health care workers get the supplies they need.

Action news now reporter ana torrea went to corning and shows us how these women are helping their community during the coronavirus pandemic.

*ana stand u* trt:19 ana torrea @atorreanews a set of seamstresses are volunteering their time and skills to create homemade ppe gear.

From face shields, to gowns, & even these masks.

These will go over the n-95 masks.

They even have gaps in them so that health care works can put air filters if needed.

((nat of sewing machine)) take so* trt: 11 jeannie cloud director of human resources at rolling hills casino that's what started all of this because they just couldnt get them and they were really concerned that we were gonna have a surge of the virus hitting up here locally and they wouldnt have the protective equipment to treat all the patients.

That's when these ladies stepped upã spending hours creating p-p-e gear for workers at clinic.

Using elastic hairbands and pipe cleaners to create masks and face shields.

Take so* trt: 08 cindy rimer seamstress at rolling hills casino well the first week we spent 6 hours a day, but now its about 4 or 5 because its really labor- intensive leaning over those machines// we volunteer our time to sew them up.

Health care workers at the rolling hills clinic feared they wouldn't have enough ppe supplies to treat patients.

And to ease their worries... take so* trt:04 jeannie cloud director of human resources at rolling hills casino if we could provide them with these items then we would have a backstock but with this homemade p-p-e equipment: workers will be able to help patients.

Because in this time of crisis... take so* trt:08 jeannie cloud if you know how to sew and you have a desire to do community service work, its really a great way to help local communities when they cant get the supplies they need it ana stand up ta* trt:14 ana torrea @atorreanews now these seamstresses have been at this for a couple of weeks and all the gear that they make will go towards the rolling hills clinic.

In corning, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.

# the rolling hills clinic has 2 locations: one in red bluff and another in corning.

A non profit