"Help us people that can’t hear as well become involved in the community again." "This is just something so nice that someone would go out of his way to do something like this," she said after being fitted with new hearing aids free of charge. Innovators making a difference in the lives of people like Allie Hillesheim.
"Government certainly has a place, but here at Starkey, these are innovators."
"I think this is an example of why the private sector does such a good job with these things," Rep. "This is kind of COVID innovation because we know we had the barriers of the masks, plus the barriers of plexiglass and then social distancing," Franzen said after visiting with Starkey patients and hearing aid technicians. Melisa Franzen, DFL-Edina, was there from the Minnesota Legislature. Angie Craig all represented Minnesota’s congressional delegation. Tom Emmer and Michele Fischbach and Democratic Rep. "We really want to find the people who do need that help, so we’re really all about that accessibility and letting them know there is a place they can come, and it’s our corporate social responsibility to give back." "For us, better hearing is bipartisan, especially because May is Better Hearing Month," says Starkey CEO Brandon Sawalich.
The company is reaching out to people who suffered economically or couldn’t access hearing health care during the pandemic. The Eden Prairie-based company invited three members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation and a state lawmaker to their corporate headquarters to learn more about the company’s post-pandemic initiative. She just received a free set of hearing aids valued at $4,000 courtesy of Starkey Cares, a corporate social responsibility initiative of hearing aid manufacturer Starkey Hearing Technologies. "I can’t communicate with the cashiers because I just can’t understand what they’re saying, so I just kind of have to look down and hurry up and pay for my things and go," said 20-year old Allie Hillesheim of Mankato. Now imagine all that if you already struggle to hear. It’s hard enough to communicate with masks, through plexiglass and while keeping a social distance.
The pandemic has been difficult for almost everyone, but it has affected people experiencing hearing loss in simple but profound ways.
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