I can see why they would refuse to do this. The effort of tracking which masks were donated vs which to charge for, would be significant.
Who’s going to track which patient was treated by staff wearing donated masks, and which were not?
And if medical staff were working with multiple patients while wearing the same mask, would they have to split the discount for a $1 mask up between patients?
We just wanted our donation to be a donation to patients and staff, not to the business side bottomline. Since n95 masks are practically fungible, it could have easily been credited or treated as a donation to patient bills (as we suggested) whether it be to divide among X random Covid patients or to a single person's ICU bill. The masks value was around $25,000, and who knows what multiple (3-25x ?) the hospital would charge to patients?
The fact is the hospitals gave us no path toward transferring that to patients and not their bottom line. We ended up selling most of our masks to hospitals for that reason, seeing it as the more moral option.
Who’s going to track which patient was treated by staff wearing donated masks, and which were not?
And if medical staff were working with multiple patients while wearing the same mask, would they have to split the discount for a $1 mask up between patients?