Very few people can claim that they’ve talked to every single Akron Children’s employee. But Bob Daugherty, patient relations specialist at Akron Children’s, can. For most of his career at Children’s, he was a telecommunications operator who answered and screened incoming telephone calls, routed calls to hospital employees, residents, departments and physician offices and monitored […]
Married employees use tuition reimbursement to pay for nursing school
When Summa NICU nurse Abi Daugherty began her career at Akron Children’s in 2018 she had a very different role. “I was hired as a housekeeper in environmental services while I was still in nursing school,” said Abi. At the time, Abi was entering her third year in the nursing program at the University of […]
Job offer to North High graduate is first for hospital’s partnership with APS
As a student at North High School, So Ma Ya had lots of opportunities to learn about careers in health care. Akron Children’s was the first organization/employer to partner with Akron Public Schools in creating the Akron Children’s Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School in 2018. As a result, a variety […]