Georgia-based mattress company sending thousands of mattresses to New York hospitals

Serta Simmons announced the donation earlier this week
Stock photo of a hospital bed.

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Credit: Flying Colours Ltd / DigitalVision / Getty Images

Stock photo of a hospital bed.

Serta Simmons Bedding seeks to ease part of the overwhelming burden the hospital and health care facilities are enduring as New York City’s hospitalizations climb due to the coronavirus.

The company, which is based in Doraville, Georgia, has announced it will donate 10,000 mattresses to those facilities in the wake of the pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Americans and sickened tens of thousands.

“Serta Simmons Bedding is committed to ensuring those who are hospitalized have a bed available where they can receive care and heal,” said David Swift, SSB chairman and CEO, in a written statement. “We’re calling on our peers in the bedding industry to join us in addressing this need.”

A photo of the beds that will be donated to New York hospitals.

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Credit: Serta Simmons Bedding

The leading U.S. bedding producer will donate its mattresses and has offered its factories as a means of producing up to 20,000 beds per day in case the hospitalizations continue to surge in New York, according to a news release from the company. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said the state would soon require as many as 140,000 additional hospital beds. It has more than 53,000 in use.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that federal funding will support building four temporary health care centers to address the growing need of the city and state of New York. The state has more than 42,000 active cases of COVID-19 as of Friday morning.

Serta’s donation is valued at $2 million and is being facilitated through its relationship with Relief Bed International, a nonprofit organization that provides beds to impoverished people and disaster victims around the world.

Other companies have sought to provide health care workers and hospitals with relief. Starbucks, Uber and Krispy Kreme have offered to supply nurses, doctors and others with free food and coffee as they continue to work endless hours to battle the emerging virus.