, a family-owned, 150-employee construction and manufacturing business based in Ogden, Utah, has a 49-year history working with the military and other government agencies. Their focus? Developing containment chambers to safely confine both chemical and biological agents.Working on these types of products for the government helped HHI realize that it wasn’t a matter of if, but when, help would be needed when an infectious disease or another disaster presented itself.
Then the unthinkable happened to a member of the HHI employee family. “One of our workers’ moms went in for surgery. She was recovering fine but then she got COVID-19 and six days later she died,” says Hokanson. This spurred HHI into action. “People are sewing masks. We don’t know how to sew. We build things. This is our contribution.”
Realizing the urgency due to COVID-19, HHI went into overdrive. Using their experience from designing similar systems and chemical/biomedical containment projects for the military, they modified their previous designs and built the first MTU in nine weeks.Then, one morning in March 2020, as the pandemic continued to intensify, Hokanson came to the office and called an emergency meeting.
The ability to serve southern Florida-area hospitals during COVID-19, plus the long-term value of assisting the region during disaster situations, made awarding the unit to GSMSG to benefit the Jackson Health System an easy choice. “With over 17,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Miami-Dade County alone, it was apparent there was an urgent need to assist this region.
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