About Us

At our core, we are committed to championing school nurses, providing them with optimal supplies, unparalleled support, and cutting-edge resources to enhance their capacity for delivering outstanding care.

We are dedicated to ensuring that every order you receive arrives to your complete satisfaction. If you are not satisfied with your order, please call us at (800) 323-2841.

When it comes to shipping, over 94% of the time your order will be shipped within 48 hours, except on backorders and drop-shipped items (couches, stretchers, screens, lamps etc.).

It all started at the turn of the twentieth century in 1904 when Earnest Hicks started a business, The Red Cross Company of Boston, to sell a revolutionary product - a kind of first aid "chart" that provided emergency care instructions for common injuries and ailments. When Hicks' died less than three years later, the then-general manager of the company, William V. MacGill, took the reigns and, in a delightful twist of historical ingenuity, transformed the product to include medical supplies - assembling it all in a small box with shelves and converting the "chart" to an instructional booklet. Thus, one of the first commercially sold first aid kits came to life.
 
After the company liquidated in 1910, MacGill continued to sell the door-to-door first aid cabinets and persevered through the years of bleak supply shortages during the Great War. In 1921, the company got a new moniker, William V. MacGill & Company, headquartered in Chicago. Two years later, On April 1, 1923, MacGill hired William F. Haak as the office manager. Haak quickly proved to be more treasure than hire, swiftly cementing his role as an indispensable pillar of the operation - including by lending his own money to fuel MacGill's ambitions for broader horizons.
 
In May 1942, amid the echoes of the Second World War, William V. MacGill passed away, and Haak, along with Mr. Alfred G. Anderson, assumed ownership of the business. For the next 38 years, Haak continued to build MacGill’s lasting legacy of providing excellent products and going above and beyond for customers.

Haak ultimately sold the company in 1980 to the current ownership family, who recognized the lack of affordable medical supplies available to school nurses and transformed the company into MacGill School Nurse Supplies, ushering in a new era of accessible health essentials.
 
Now, over four decades later, two generations in, and steered by an enthusiastic brother-sister team, MacGill School Nurse Supplies continues its mission to empower school nurses, ensuring they have what they need to deliver top-notch care to students. That little first aid chart business from 1904 has grown into a powerhouse team of talented, loyal, hardworking, and conscientious individuals all striving to provide school nurses with the best supplies, helpful services, essential resources, and unparalleled support.
 
While we don't know what the future holds, we know one thing for sure: if it matters to school nurses, it will always matter to us.