BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A peculiar convey you to our healthcare heroes from the Baltimore Ravens. The squad donated 500 tickets to the University of Maryland Medical System’s frontline healthcare workers to be tonight’s game.
The members were randomly selected.
“We are incredibly grateful to the Ravens enactment for recognizing our squad members successful this peculiar way,” said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Maryland Medical System. “We’ve cared for thousands of Marylanders passim the twelvemonth and a fractional pandemic effect and this is simply a much-appreciated motion of enactment that volition let our unit to bask a nighttime retired and hopefully ticker the Ravens bring location a triumph for Baltimore and the state.”
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Tonight’s crippled marks the “return” of UMMS to M&T Bank Stadium. For 4 months, squad members operated the largest wide COVID-19 vaccination tract wherever astir a quarter-million doses were distributed.
At its peak, the M&T Bank Stadium Mass Vaccination Site vaccinated implicit 6,000 radical a day. At 1 point, broke a authorities grounds for wide vaccination sites erstwhile objective unit vaccinated implicit 1,000 radical successful an hour.
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The squad members volition b e cheering from the precocious platform and volition beryllium outfitted with instrumentality towels successful the organization’s reddish and achromatic colors and featuring “HOME OF THE BRAVE” COVID-19 effect branding.