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On Friday night, March 13, the Rev. Joel Miller, interim minister at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was in Columbus, Ohio—where he’d flown to visit his mother and to preach at an installation in nearby Pittsburgh—when he got an urgent text.
The public schools in Baton Rouge, like so many around the country, were closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that healthcare workers from the area’s Ochsner medical system would have no childcare as the crisis escalated and the demand grew for doctors, nurses, and support staff. Kelly Coreil, a licensed daycare provider who had been approved to rent space at the church this summer for a kids’ camp, had a favor to ask the Baton Rouge congregation: Would they allow her to launch a childcare program for the kids of local healthcare workers, starting . . . immediately?
“She said hospital workers need daycare because there’s no school, and she said, ‘Do you want to do this?’” Miller recalls. “And I said, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s what we’re here for.’”
This is awesome. It's a huge concern where I am at. Hospital workers cannot be discriminated against, This is beautiful.
The public schools in Baton Rouge, like so many around the country, were closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that healthcare workers from the area’s Ochsner medical system would have no childcare as the crisis escalated and the demand grew for doctors, nurses, and support staff. Kelly Coreil, a licensed daycare provider who had been approved to rent space at the church this summer for a kids’ camp, had a favor to ask the Baton Rouge congregation: Would they allow her to launch a childcare program for the kids of local healthcare workers, starting . . . immediately?
“She said hospital workers need daycare because there’s no school, and she said, ‘Do you want to do this?’” Miller recalls. “And I said, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s what we’re here for.’”
Baton Rouge church quickly opens childcare center for healthcare workers
In one weekend, the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, closed its building, shifted to online worship, and welcomed a childcare program for healthcare workers.
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This is awesome. It's a huge concern where I am at. Hospital workers cannot be discriminated against, This is beautiful.