Annie & Isabel

Lexi Update!! Thank you for all the well wishes and prayers for Lexi as she went under for her double lung transplant on June 25th. Lexi is doing SO amazing. After a year in the hospital on life support Lexi defines grit and resilience 💪🏼 As nurses, we are just in awe of her strength. We were so happy to send Lexi custom embroidered Annie & Isabel hospital gowns just in time to mark this new chapter after transplant! We love you Lexi and mama 🐻 Sabrina Hodge Lester! Thank you Mono Mia for helping with the beautiful embroidery.

We don’t love this current surge but we do love seeing frontline workers wearing our Protect With Heart scrub hats. We have many different scrub hats now available as well as some new scrunchies! Check them out on our website❤️

Thank You Annie & Isabel and for all your efforts to keep healthcare workers safe and feeling appreciated♥️

Happy Holiday Shopping! 30% off our entire site ♥️ designer hospital gown, scrubs hats, masks and introducing hair scrunchies…the perfect stocking stuffer! Discount automatically applied at checkout and good thru 11/28.

Simple Loaf of Bread.....a non profit organization started by Deborah Knoll who made it her mission to bring cheer to patients who were going through a tough time. She raised money through fundraisers and used the money to buy presents and gift cards to bring smiles to others. She started this organization after a dear friend of hers lost their battle with breast cancer and she wanted to honor her friend's life by helping others.

In 2014, Deborah reached out to us because she wanted to donate some of her gift cards to us so we could send them to our customers who were purchasing our hospital gowns for themselves or someone who was going through cancer, battling diseases, having surgeries or just going through tough times. We had never met Deborah prior to her reaching out to us and I remember when we first met her how blown away we were with her positivity and generous soul. Her bright light was contagious and we felt so lucky to be able to be a small part in sharing her goodness with some of our customers. Many of you may have received one of those cards. Deborah donated hundreds of them to us and we received so many notes of gratitude from our customers about how a simple gesture like these cards really made a difference for them.

This last year Deborah has been battling her own diagnoses of ALS and it is with great sadness that we found out she passed away yesterday.

Deborah was a shining light in this world and one of the most giving people we know. We became friends over the last 7 years and even outside of her charity she was always about doing random acts of kindness. Her family has asked to honor her by doing a random act of kindness and I think we can all get behind that.

Deborah - thank you for sharing your giving heart with us individually and with our company. May you rest in peace and know that you have touched so many lives with your love❤️

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protectwithheart on Instagram: That’s a wrap! Thank you to Dr. Osh*ta of Urgent Care Now and Team Equivax ♥️ we have had the honor to be a part of 19 free vaccine clinics… Vince Myers • I Did It All

NURSE'S WEEK GIVEAWAY!!

We have been working on a few new designs for our scrub hats and Tim Collom has generously allowed us to use more of his art! We have some prototypes so we thought we would share a couple by doing a giveaway! Tim dedicated this artwork to healthcare heroes.

To enter to win this scrub hat:

1. Like this post
2. Tag your nurse friends for an extra entry

Giveaway ends May 12th!

Design: Kathryn Kaufman O'Connell

Happy Nurses Week!

It was called "The Year of the Nurse" and THAT is was! We want to wish a Happy Nurses Week to all of the AMAZING nurses who have continued to show up and care for their patients no matter what the circumstances. We have seen this pandemic front and center and it has weighed heavily on our shoulders and hearts.

For us personally, to have met thousands of nurses all over the country this past year with project Protect with Heart has been an true honor. You are our "why" and we thank you for everything. We are united in strength and LOVE...and protected in HeART.

To celebrate Nurses Week, we are offering 20% off in our store on scrub hats, face masks, and designer hospital gowns. Discount will be applied at checkout and link to our shop is in the comments. Valid 5/6-5/13

Thank you to the Alta Bates Emergency Department for all that you do to care for your patients! ♥️

This Big Heart Box of 50 scrub hats was generously sponsored by Garden of Weedon Designs

Art: Tim Collom
Design: Kathryn Kaufman O'Connell
Crew: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

Today, we were honored to join Dr. Rusty Osh*ta to help vaccinate over 100 members of our California State Legislature and staff at our beautiful State Capitol 🇺🇸

Protect with Heart is also celebrating 9,000 scrub hats donated to frontline healthcare workers!!! Thank you to all who have recently donated or bought a face mask ♥️

Art: Tim Collom
Design: Kathryn Kaufman O'Connell

Our hearts are so full!! Our children’s grammar school, Our Lady Of The Assumption School, generously put on a fundraiser for our Protect With Heart project. The school received over $500 in donations! THANK YOU!! The students surprised us and made hearts that were compiled into these posters for each of our hospital units which was incredibly thoughtful and appreciated.

With this donation we were able to send a box of scrub hats to the ICU at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina ❤️ The motto of Our Lady of Assumption School is "Hands to Serve, Hearts to Love". As you can see, the hands and hearts of these students brought so many smiles to the ICU at Duke University and to our colleagues where their beautiful posters now hang ❤️

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
UCSF Medical Center

One year into this pandemic
❤️ 8 months since the launch of Protect With Heart
❤️ 8,000 scrub hats donated to frontline healthcare workers
❤️ Can you help us get to 10,000?

We continue to receive requests from hospital units for scrub hats. If you would like to help support our project, you can purchase face masks on our website with proceeds going towards our scrub hat donations or you can directly donate by emailing us at [email protected]

We wanted to share some of the responses we have received from the recipients of our scrub hat donations. This is the difference YOUR support has made for so many on the frontlines so THANK YOU!!

"You have NO IDEA how much these meant to us. It's intense right now. Perfect timing." RN - Billings, MT

" Thank you so much! Thank you for doing this for us as healthcare workers!" RN - Kansas City, MO

" Literally everyone loves them!" RN - New York, NY

" Thank you for all you do for the frontline workers." RN San Diego, CA

"We can't begin to express how much this has meant to us. We are forever grateful for everyone involved. We love what we do and take pride in that fact but are exhausted. This was everything." Repiratory Therapist - Texas

"Our whole center rocked them. Really gave joy. Your hats are not only fabulous, they are epic. They are the talk of Lenox Hill and every department wants them." MD - New York, NY

" You are seriously doing a huge deal to raise spirits on the unit and we all really appreciate it!" RN - Sacramento, CA



Art by Tim Collom
Design by Kathryn Kaufman O'Connell
Photo by Doug Cupid Photography

Paying it forward......Sutter Roseville Medical Center's 2 East Medical Surgical unit was "Protected With Heart" last week! We received a donation from a family who was extremely appreciative of the care provided to their loved one on this unit. We had the pleasure of personally dropping off these scrub hats to them. This definitely warmed their hearts ❤️

This is a story the warmed our hearts. The rehab department at UCSF Medical Center raised their own money to sponsor a box of scrub hats and protect their fellow colleagues at Mt. Sinai Rehab Team in New York, NY. Thank you to UCSF Gillian P.T. extraordinaire for organizing and spreading more Protect with Heart love.

Protecting our nurses and paramedics in the sky 🚁 So happy to be able to share our scrub hats with REACH Air Medical Services. They transport critical patients to hospitals in California, Nevada, Oregon and Colorado.

No more shoe covers to protect the heads of this hardworking ICU team at LA+USC. They are now Protected With Heart and the smiles.....priceless ❤️

Happy Valentines Day! We had the honor of vaccinating over 2,000 people today at Jesuit High School Sacramento and, for us, this was the perfect way to spread love....and hope ❤️ Protect With Heart also received an unexpected donation! The vaccine clinic, in conjunction with Jesuit High School, is facilitated by the Urgent Care Now medical team and specifically Doctor Rusty Osh*ta. Dr. Osh*ta recognized Protect With Heart today and donated $500 to our mission so we can continue to spread more hearts, smiles and protection to another deserving hospital unit! Needless to say, there was a lot of love in the air today and more to spread soon! Thank you Dr. Osh*ta and Urgent Care Now ❤️

art: Tim Collom

Protect With Heart scrub hats are on their way to a very deserving Los Angeles County -USC hospital ICU and the timing of this couldn't be more perfect.

This ICU was nominated by Amelia Dizon, an ICU nurse at UCSF who used to work in this unit. When we reached out to their unit this is what, Ramona, an ICU nurse there said, "We are greatly appreciative of whatever you can do for us. This past week the hospital ran out of the bouffant and we've been using shoe covers as bouffants so this is coming at the right time for us."

SHOE COVERS AS SCRUB HATS 😱 - Protect With Heart to the rescue......stay tuned for some smiling faces and no more shoe covers as head coverings ❤️