Lena Moore
The Baptist Health Foundation has received two donations totaling more than $130,000 to fund COVID-19 testing equipment for the western region of Arkansas.
An anonymous organization awarded $98,000, and the Fort Smith-based Good Neighbor Foundation, voluntarily funded by Baptist Health employees in the western region, donated $33,000 toward the testing system developed by molecular diagnostics company Cepheid of Sunnyvale, California.
“Our organizations have an important commonality, which is a strong commitment to our community. Vital partnerships, like these, will help Baptist Health continue to respond to the changing health needs of our state by providing innovative and quality care,” said Lena Moore, the foundation’s chief development officer, in a news release.
The testing technology will allow Baptist Health-Fort Smith, Baptist Health-Van Buren and affiliated clinics in the region to detect COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in-house and within the same day.
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