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Article Excerpt
Healthcare's construction boom has a different meaning to about 300 employees of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare in Louisville, Ky.
Four months ago, these employees launched a small but gratifying building project of their own, breaking ground with a local Habitat for Humanity chapter on an 1,100-square-foot, three-bedroom home for a Somalian family of nine. About 90 volunteers-hospital board members, physicians, nurses, administrators, accountants, maintenance workers and housekeeping staff, among others-raised the roof on the modest white home over one particularly productive three-day period. All told, at least 20 employees from the hospital system showed up every Saturday for 12 straight weeks, putting the final touches on the home earlier this month.
Robert Shircliff, the system's president and chief executive officer, was assigned the task of hauling big sheets of plywood during his volunteer...
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