What Mom and Dad Do

July 20, 2011

A week ago, several staff members at Casa Grande Regional Medical Center arrived for duty accompanied by one or more children, and it wasn’t because they weren’t able to find a sitter that day. The day was Wednesday, July 13, and the hospital administration had declared it to be “Bring Your Child To Work Day,” a special occasion that previously had been an annual event for those staff members with children ages 9 and up.

For a variety of reasons, the day ended after the summer of 2008.

“The hospital was undergoing some changes over the past two years,” said Karen Kerr-Osman, CGRMC community relations director. “Consequently, our attention was directed toward a couple of very important projects. This year, however, we took a deep sigh of relief and then began looking at some of the employee activities that we had tabled temporarily, and the Bring Your Child To Work Day was one of the first things we looked at, since it has always been such a popular event with our employees and their children.

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