--- title: FEMA Doesn't Know How Much PPE It Has. Do You? description: We've all been scrambling to find the supplies we need while product is being gobbled up and the supply chain is disrupted from start to finish.  image: https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/Blog%20Header%20-%20PPE%20FEMA.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/fema-doesnt-know-how-much-ppe-it-has.-do-you#main-content) [![Group 1211](https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/Group%201211.png)](https://www.z5inventory.com) - [Solutions](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions) - [Z5 Count](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-1) - [Z5 Fixed Asset](https://www.z5inventory.com/solution/fixedassetcount) - [Z5 Analytics](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0) - [Z5 Optimization](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-0) - [Who We Serve](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2022) - Company - [About Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact-2021) - [Contact Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact) - [Careers](https://www.z5inventory.com/careers) - [Blog](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog) - [Login](https://prod.z5development.com/) # FEMA Doesn't Know How Much PPE It Has. Do You? [Alex Diamond](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/author/alex-diamond) 4/7/2020 ![FEMA could not identify where its PPE was or how much it had. Can you do better?](https://www.z5inventory.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog%20Header%20-%20PPE%20FEMA.jpg?width=1200&name=Blog%20Header%20-%20PPE%20FEMA.jpg) (We're asking if you know your PPE quantities, not FEMA's. Although, if you could help them, we're sure they'd appreciate it.) It's been an insane time -- one that's affected the entire civilized world in a way we haven't seen in generations -- but no one has been under the exact strain that's affected healthcare's supply chain.  We're a business that props up the healthcare supply chain, and we're still as busy as we've ever been, helping collect and [donate needed medical supplies](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/z5-donates-to-texas-supply-chain-strike-force) and setting hospitals up to count their PPE inventory. (And, yes, we're still **[offering our Count software for free](https://www.z5inventory.com/en-us/count-ppe-for-free)**.)  We've all been scrambling to find the supplies we need while product is being gobbled up and the supply chain is [disrupted from start to finish](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/the-fragile-system-supplying-food-to-the-world-is-under-strain).  Many healthcare workers are [unsure about their PPE levels](https://apic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Protecting-Healthcare-Workers-Survey_Report_3_26_20_Final.pdf). And where supply levels are known - like the Kentucky facility that's established a ["war room" to track PPE levels](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/03/28/coronavirus-hospitals-turn-extreme-measures-find-ppe/2925721001/) - it's often so low that it's leading to [clinicians leaving over safety concerns](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/nursing/dc-hospital-nurse-resigns-over-lack-of-ppe.html).  It doesn't help that our government representatives are accusing healthcare workers of [abusing or outright stealing PPE](https://www.modernhealthcare.com/supply-chain/trump-suggests-some-hospitals-are-using-too-many-masks). But the government can't be particularly relied upon in this scenario, as we're seeing with FEMA's involvement.  The organization that ought to be best prepared for this exact scenario [could not quantify its PPE stock](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/22/21190068/coronavirus-fema-gaynor-ppe-how-many-masks). Nor could it even say [where its PPE is stored](https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-supply-chain-task-force-2b6be629-170c-4874-9991-7f8b3f6c5320.html).  To someone like you or us - someone who's seen the inside of medical materials management - that's probably not a shock. It's a shame, but it's not a shock.  So we challenge you to do better than FEMA. It shouldn't be as hard as it might sound. All you need is a way to take an accurate inventory quickly - like on a mobile device that uploads results instantly to the cloud so that all stakeholders can view reports detailing your inventory down to the shelf.  And - again - that exact solution is currently **[free for every hospital](https://www.z5inventory.com/en-us/count-ppe-for-free)** that wants to track its PPE.  You don't need a war room. 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