Kealakekua, island of Hawaii – Early in October, Kohala Hospital nurses and other hospital personnel joined a county-wide effort to collect scrubs for clinical workers in flood-soaked South Carolina.
Interim CNE, Carmela Rice was one of many Hawaii Island nurses to receive an urgent text from a South Carolina (SC) emergency room nurse seeking donations of new or used scrubs for her fellow SC nurses affected by the devastating flooding in that state.