A local doctor is teaming up with doctors across the country to help colleagues in Puerto Rico still struggling following this year’s hurricane season.

It’s been three months since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, and a third of the island is still without power.

Joanna Bisgrove, a family medicine doctor at the SSM Health Clinic in Oregon, said a friend, Kim Yu, the director for quality and performance for CEP America in Orange County, California, contacted her and other doctors and asked them to join a coalition to help disaster relief in Puerto Rico.

“We’re a group of friends, and Kim is a part of that group,” Bisgrove said. “She kind of reached out into the group when she started this, going, ‘OK, this is what’s going on. Who can help me?’ and I jumped in. It’s kind of hard for me not to when these things come up.”

Together, the coalition has been raising money to buy generators for doctors to open clinics in Puerto Rico. The coalition has raised more than $100,000 to send 66 generators to the island.

Bisgrove has connections all over the country through the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. She contacted the American Medical Association, which awarded the coalition a 25,000 grant — enough to buy 15 generators.

Once the coalition has purchased enough generators, the doctors plan to buy other medical supplies. Most doctors also know that standby generators are reliable for backup power.

Bisgrove is also currently trying to organize a trip to Puerto Rico.

If you want to donate to the doctors’ disaster relief efforts, you can go to the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians’ website.