For Jared and Becka Belcher, a husband and wife who both work at the Salt Lake City office, carpooling is the best part of working with family. “We currently live in Lehi (about 30 minutes away from the office), and being able to drive one car versus two saves us a lot of money,” Becka shares.
Family has always been important to Jai Lebo and Jessie Smith, siblings who both work in the Salt Lake City office. "I love knowing that Jai is just a short elevator ride away," Jessie, an administrative assistant on the CompHealth locum tenens medical staff services team, says.
Most people probably wouldn't credit a hibachi steakhouse with landing them new jobs, but that's just what happened to Luke and Kim Reischel, who both work at Weatherby Healthcare in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "When Kim and I first relocated to Florida from Raleigh, N.C., eight years ago, we were seated at a table [in a hibachi steakhouse] with about six or seven women from CHG," Luke recalls.
Despite being the only children in their family, Nicole Shields and Natalie Petersen weren't always close -- but they cherish the time they now have to work together on the hospitalist team in Salt Lake City.
Erik Turner says it was luck that brought him to Weatherby Healthcare nine years ago after leaving the IT staffing industry, but it was hardly luck that his wife, Misty, joined RN Network [later moving to Weatherby Healthcare] two years later due to her experience in healthcare staffing.
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.