Miami Valley Hospital ER staff donates $2K to Dayton Foodbank tornado relief

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Emergency Department staff at Miami Valley Hospital donated to The Dayton Foodbank Monday to support people affected by the Memorial Day tornadoes.

The staff hosted a bake sale and raffled baskets to raise $2,000.

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“Within an hour of the response of the tornado being announced, people were already emailing me ‘what can we do, what can we do?’,” Tonja Fote, Nurse Manager of the Emergency Department said. “We saw people presented with heat-related illnesses, PTSD, we saw family members coming in, it was just amazing - amazing, the response.”

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