Two years ago Bryan Health Vice President For Advancement Bob Ravenscroft made a promise. During the pandemic, individuals and businesses from across the region generously donated items to help Bryan respond to COVID-19 pandemic. Personal protective equipment was especially needed early on.
In March of 2020, Iron Brush Tattoo donated 29,000 surgical gloves to the staff at Bryan Health. The following day, Ravenscroft made this promise. “To the good folks at Iron Brush Tattoo. When we get through this, I don’t currently have one, but I’m coming in to get a tattoo.”
Ravenscroft fulfilled his pledge and got the tattoo on March 2. Ravenscroft’s tattoo design represents a two-year journey, a health official’s pledge to be truthful and honest with the public and a bible verse that depicts what love is and is not.
Bryan officials say Iron Brush Tattoo refused payment for the tattoo and instead re-gifted it and asked Bryan to buy nurses a beer and thank them for their work.
Ravenscroft then personally delivered gift cards from a local brewery to nursing units at Bryan’s East and West campuses. “The honor of working with all of our staff the last two years under previously unimaginable circumstances was awe-inspiring and absolutely incredible,” Ravenscroft says. “I hope they enjoy this gesture on behalf of Iron Brush Tattoo and all of us at Bryan.”