{"id":3130,"date":"2022-10-10T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:19:02","slug":"success-story-americacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/success-story-americacare\/","title":{"rendered":"America Care, LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"

America Care, founded by Dr. Hansheng Lei, was one of the first companies in Brownsville to be awarded a Brownsville Cares Grant, part of the StartUp Texas COVID-19 Relief Grants offered through the BCIC. The program offers up to $10,000 in earnest money towards an existing SBA Program. The organization\u2019s main goal is to assist in increasing the domestic supply of PPE after the COVID-19 pandemic drained national stockpiles and exposed a need to produce vital supplies in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the pandemic started, the country was running low on PPE, particularly masks, and unfortunately our Country was not producing enough domestically,\u201d says Dr. Lei. \u201cI thought to myself, we have the expertise here, we have support from the City, so why don\u2019t we produce PPE here locally in Brownsville?\u201d<\/p>\n

In conjunction with an SBA 7(a) Loan Program and the Brownsville Cares Grant, America Care was able to create a facility capable of producing 100,000 masks a day. The company has expansion plans for the near future allowing for production of almost half a million masks daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinancing on a project like this is always critical, and the BCIC has always supported our efforts. We can always rely on them for support,\u201d says Dr. Lei.<\/p>\n

Financing on a project like this is always critical, and the BCIC has always supported our efforts. We can always rely on them for support.<\/p>\n

Hansheng Lei, PhD
\nFounder of America Care<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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To date the BCIC has assisted in bringing $5,149,900 into the community from the organization\u2019s StartUp Texas COVID-19 Relief Grants and through federal grants administered by the Small Business Association. Over 40 organizations focused on providing services and critical needs to Brownsville residents have been awarded, helping to retain a total of 742 employees thus far.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best way for local economies to grow is to find the people who are already doing amazing things in your community and supporting them,\u201d says Nathan Burkhart, Director of Marketing & Small Business Development for the BCIC. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see how even in the midst of a pandemic, our small business community in Brownsville can innovate, adapt, and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lei and America Care have also chosen to donate 20,000 masks to the BCIC for small businesses struggling to find PPE Equipment as a gesture of appreciation towards the City\u2019s economic development organization, BCIC.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team is utilizing every resource possible to support recovery and innovation efforts for our small businesses. Partnerships like these are a vital part of our response to this pandemic and this donation is just one more manifestation of the collaborative and conducive relationship between the BCIC and our small businesses working together for the better good of our community\u201d says Burkhart. \u201cThe BCIC staff and board of directors thank Dr. Lei and America Care for their continued leadership and generous donation of these vital and much needed masks during this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Businesses in need of PPE are encouraged to order locally, online at www.America-Care.com or over the phone at (956) 588 2148. Customers can also place an order in person at the America Care office located at 2450 Courage St, STE 101, Brownsville, TX 78921.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America Care, founded by Dr. Hansheng Lei, was one of the first companies in Brownsville to be awarded a Brownsville Cares Grant, part of the StartUp Texas COVID-19 Relief Grants offered through the BCIC. The program offers up to $10,000 in earnest money towards an existing SBA Program. The organization\u2019s main goal is to assist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillecic.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}