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The Rev. Vicki Gladding prays at an event outside Rush Foundation Hospital in March. âWe had a lot of employees that needed to be able to continue to do their job with excellence,  Gladding said. And they were going through the same emotions that everybody goes through.â The Rev. Vicki Gladding said that before the COVID-19 pandemic, her position focused mainly on patients. That had to change quickly, though, when the pandemic spread to Lauderdale County.Â
âWe had a lot of employees that needed to be able to continue to do their job with excellence,â said Gladding, a chaplain at Rush Foundation Hospital. âAnd they were going through the same emotions that everybody goes through.â
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family where this is what comes out of snit my mother was a painter, my father was a poet. that s why i run the rush foundation that we have an event coming up. we ve had it for 15 years in the hamptons and we underwrite art education for inner city kids. it s important to me that kids get art, practice appreciation, opportunities, because it s like you ve got to cultivate creativity. what presence comes from art, from looking inside, the bankers don t get that. and numbers don t mean anything unless you can imagine what to do with them. so cultivating the imagination is important part of the kid s education and it s being overlooked. all the programs have been cut. so we try to supplement programs like that with the rush foundation. do people step up when the government s not there? if we can raise $3 million in