Greater than 20 years in the past, QFloors co-founders Chad and Chris Ogden spent an agonizing week at Main Youngsters’s Hospital in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, hovering over the mattress of their gravely unwell two-year-old daughter. “It was one of the terrifying experiences of my life,” stated Chris Ogden. “However they saved our Annie’s life. We are going to eternally 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 additionally affected the fluid round her mind, leading to her not having the ability to stroll, stand, or sit up. “Once we introduced her to the hospital, I used to be weeping, overwhelmed by panic that we would lose her,” Chris Ogden stated. “However then, per week later, when she was launched from the hospital, I cried once more. However this time I used to be overcome, serious about the entire mother and father and kids we’d met who weren’t capable of go away the hospital. We felt extremely blessed that our daughter’s final result was wanting promising, however we mourned for individuals who have been coping with gut-wrenching circumstances.”
The Ogdens have been 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.
Situated in Salt Lake Metropolis, Intermountain Main Youngsters’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 kids 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 instances, when he developed a situation inflicting his system to create and go kidney stones from a really early age. Buyer Help Director Kristy Hayek’s seven-year-old son spent a protracted weekend on the hospital as a result of issues from bronchial asthma.
Kristy Hayek remembers, “I spent the nights there with him, and bear in mind they even introduced me just a little wagon for his child brother to sleep in, who was just one or two on the time. They actually exit of their strategy to make the children really feel protected and glad. I bear in mind the nurse telling him he may choose up the telephone and order a hamburger or ice cream any time. In addition 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 Youngsters’s Hospital hospital caring for the kids of prolonged household, neighbors, and mates. In consequence, the employees threw themselves into the venture, finally gathering 110 new gadgets 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 gadgets, so it’s fairly unbelievable to see how beneficiant and fast to reply our staff have been.”
Acknowledging the complete circle second, QFloors president Chad Ogden famous, “Though we are able to by no means actually repay them, it feels good to have the ability to give again to a spot that, in a manner, gave us our daughter. As we speak Annie is an lively, hilarious, bold and wholesome school scholar. So we’re so glad and grateful to perform a little to assist Main Youngsters’s Hospital and their sufferers.”