Employees kept the nursery at the West Jefferson Medical Center in the city open to care for the children of doctors and other hospital staff.
They also took in children who do not usually attend the nursery but whose parents brought them in before the hurricane struck when they knew they would have to work through the storm.
A spokesperson for Bright Horizons in the US told Nursery World, 'We had four employees working at the center for five days with no electricity, no running water and no toilets. They worked 24 hours a day with no opportunity to sleep under these dire circumstances, all while not knowing the impact the storm had on their homes.'
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