Greater than 20 years in the past, QFloors co-founders Chad and Chris Ogden spent an agonizing week at Main Kids’s Hospital in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, hovering over the mattress of their gravely ailing two-year-old daughter. “It was one of the terrifying experiences of my life,” mentioned Chris Ogden. “However they saved our Annie’s life. We’ll perpetually be grateful.”
Their toddler, Annie, had been hit by an uncommon and harsh virus that had not solely developed into pancreatitis (very uncommon in a small baby), but in addition affected the fluid round her mind, leading to her now not having the ability to stroll, stand, or sit up. “After we introduced her to the hospital, I used to be weeping, overwhelmed by panic that we would lose her,” Chris Ogden mentioned. “However then, per week later, when she was launched from the hospital, I cried once more. However this time I used to be overcome, occupied with the entire mother and father and youngsters we’d met who weren’t capable of depart the hospital. We felt extremely blessed that our daughter’s consequence was trying promising, however we mourned for many who had been coping with gut-wrenching circumstances.”
The Ogdens had been just lately capable of give again to the kids’s hospital that saved their daughter’s life, as a part of a vacation service venture the flooring software program firm sponsored. QFloors staff participated in an in-kind donation drive for the nationally ranked pediatric hospital, gathering toys, books, video games, and clothes for the younger sufferers.
Positioned in Salt Lake Metropolis, Intermountain Main Kids’s Hospital has been ranked by U.S. Information & World Report as one of many nation’s finest youngsters’s hospitals. It’s a not-for-profit educating hospital that focuses on pediatric acute care for youngsters with complicated sicknesses and accidents, and serves the states of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, which is an unlimited geographic space.
Many different QFloors staff additionally had private ties to the kids’s hospital. For instance, QFloors co-founder/CFO Trent Ogden’s younger son, Taylor, was a affected person on the hospital a number of occasions, when he developed a situation inflicting his system to create and cross kidney stones from a really early age. Buyer Assist Director Kristy Hayek’s seven-year-old son spent an extended weekend on the hospital as a result of problems from bronchial asthma.
Kristy Hayek remembers, “I spent the nights there with him, and keep in mind they even introduced me slightly wagon for his child brother to sleep in, who was just one or two on the time. They actually exit of their method to make the youngsters really feel secure and completely satisfied. I keep in mind the nurse telling him he may choose up the telephone and order a hamburger or ice cream any time. Additionally they had a cool toy room they’d take him to and let him select any toys he want to play with.”
Different QFloors staff have tales about Main Kids’s Hospital hospital caring for the kids of prolonged household, neighbors, and mates. In consequence, the employees threw themselves into the venture, ultimately gathering 110 new objects for the hospital. Donations included artwork provides, books, toddler and toddler sleepers, and toys and video games for a variety of ages and pursuits.
Advertising and marketing director Aerin Ogden spearheaded the venture, and expressed gratitude for the expertise. “The response we’ve had for this service venture has been wonderful. We didn’t have a whole lot of time to gather objects, so it’s fairly unimaginable to see how beneficiant and fast to reply our staff have been.”
Acknowledging the total circle second, QFloors president Chad Ogden famous, “Despite the fact that we are able to by no means really repay them, it feels good to have the ability to give again to a spot that, in a method, gave us our daughter. At the moment Annie is an brisk, hilarious, formidable and wholesome faculty pupil. So we’re so completely satisfied and grateful to perform a little to assist Main Kids’s Hospital and their sufferers.”