Mother-daughter duo Barb Shillingford and Sarah Ehin have always been close, Sarah says, but now that they're working "under the same roof" in the Salt Lake office, they've grown closer.
All it took was one date for Jeff O'Rawe and Kristine Hlavacka-O'Rawe to become inseparable, Jeff says -- and now their work in the Weatherby Healthcare office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., allows them to be inseparable, too.
Sisters Jayne Crosby and Tina Hender are lucky enough to see each other five days a week: They both work on the CHG accounts receivable team in the Salt Lake City office.
Sisters Cynthia Martin and Diane Martin live together, carpool each day to the Salt Lake office and are always hard at work -- but they still find time to spend with their niece, Tess Kooring, who joined CHG nine months ago. All three now work in the CompHealth locum tenens division.
Driving to and from work at the Salt Lake office is one of Tina Clegg's favorite parts of the day because she shares it with her son, TC Macfarlane. "TC and I both like to laugh, and he likes to tease me, so more often than not we find ourselves laughing about the most ridiculous things," Tina shares.
Since she joined CHG in Salt Lake City in 1993, Sheryl Metz, director of CHG payroll and commissions, and her daughter, Mallary Paskett, have both been part of the CHG family. "One of the funniest things I remember was bringing Mallary to work with me on a weekend when she had a perm processing in her hair. I didn’t even think about how awful the smell would be!"
Jon Poliseno calls his wife, Tiffany, his "biggest supporter and confidante" and credits her with the courage to relocate from their hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when he accepted a position at Weatherby Healthcare. For Tiffany, however, the decision was not a hard one to make.
Though they no longer read children's stories like the Mercer Mayer book that shares this article's title, Janet Cattani and her daughter, McKenzie Gammon, still share plenty of stories as they head to and from work at the Salt Lake office together. Janet, manager of operations for the CompHealth locum tenens operational training team, has worked at CHG for four-and-a-half years and referred McKenzie in September 2010.
They may not be filling midnight shifts, but the phrase "Working Knights" still applies to this tight-knit family at CHG. The Knights -- Clint, Joelle, A'Neil and Elise (Gibby) -- all work in the Salt Lake office and have among them a combined total of more than 30 years of CHG service. Though his sisters attribute their interest in CHG to a sister-in-law who worked at the company, Clint's career at CHG began when his sister took a job here.
CHG is a Best Place to Work, and now many of its people can officially call the cities where they live a Best Place to Live, too. CNNMoney.com released its annual list of the Best Places to Live, a compilation of America's best small cities, and three office locations were listed this year.
The May issue of LocumLife spotlights Dr. James R. Greenlee, a CompHealth locum tenens provider, in an article about giving locum tenens care to Native Americans.
The May issue of LocumLife spotlights Dr. Ronda Fleck, a CompHealth locum tenens provider who uses her locum tenens assignments as opportunity to visit the local spots.
Jonathan Simon, Weatherby Healthcare's surgery subspecialties division manager, was featured in a LocumLife article about how locums physicians can help solve the shortage of primary care physicians.
