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'Helping Hands' fill positions at Akron Children's Hospital

24 years into her nursing career at Akron Children's Hospital, Denise Lehoski has seen busy days. But now, staffing shortages seen in health care and other industries are compounding — with more sick kids in need of care. "House-wide, hospital-wide ... our volumes are just exploding," Lehoski said. "A lot of us have stepped up to the plate and said, 'What can we do? What can we do? What can we do?'" To handle it all, nurses like her who work in administrative roles are now volunteering to be back at the bedside. "People are changing around their weekends," she told 3News. "People are changing around their days. We do that because we care about each other and we care about the patients that we take care of." Lehoski is one of hundreds of "Helping Hands," as it's called: a voluntary, paid program to deploy staff members with clinical skills and others to work extra hours addressing critical patient needs. "So if the staff member has some available time outside of their regular duties — either in the evening or on the weekend — they can choose to pick up whatever shifts they're available for," Christine Young, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief of Hospital-based Services at ACH. "We were overwhelmed with the response to the helping hands. You know, we expected maybe a hundred people and [got] 700 out of about 6,600 employees, over 10% of our workforce to step up and say, 'We want to help. We want to do more.'" Sara Shookman reports from Akron: https://www.wkyc.com/article/features...