Opinion: More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to
“Basically no one leaves that utilizes the child care center."
Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute shortage.
But health care worker Jada Carter was lucky. Her two children went to Hospitots, one of the few places to stay open during the early days of the pandemic, when, by one estimate, two-thirds of child care centers closed.
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