The Goodwin University Way. School Donates Medical Supplies to Hospitals, Provides Housing for Nurses, Scheinberg Slashes Salary.

Mark Scheinberg did not hesitate. When Goodwin University’s founder and president knew that the school’s medical programs would be closed for the rest of the semester, he donated the school’s supplies to two local hospitals.

Goodwin has sent to St. Francis 498 boxes of gloves, 2100 masks, 36 boxes of wipes, 100 pairs of booties, 64 towns, 18 pairs of safety glasses, and a respirator. The school has also made donations of critical medical supplies to Eastern Connecticut Health Network.

Goodwin has moved its mobile manufacturing lab to St. Francis to convert for testing. The school is offering its excess student housing to area nurses who are concerned about exposing their families to the virus if they return home from work.

“It was amazing to watch our many programs come together like that,” said Paula Dowd, Goodwin’s Dean of the School of Nursing and Heath Professions. “Nursing, respiratory care, the science labs, histology, dental hygiene — even manufacturing — everyone wanted to contribute supplies.”

In a message to the Goodwin University community last week, Scheinberg looked to Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky for the way forward. “Every hand that we don’t shake, must become a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid, must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and another, must become a thought as to how we might be of help to that other, should the need arise.” 

Scheinberg is donating half his salary to the student emergency fund at Goodwin.