Cameras also allow parents to monitor their children on the Internet. Depending on how they feel, children can participate in various activities, such as field trips to the state Capitol a few blocks away. Because the downtown location offers no space to play outdoors, the biggest room is outfitted with a basketball hoop and child-sized play cars. Other rooms are furnished with bean-bag chairs, cribs and stacks of cots. Toys and books stock the shelves.
Art supplies cram a hallway closet.
He most enjoyed painting a snowman on the window. Well Centers has contracts with about 60 local businesses, and bigger firms pay bigger subsidies. The staff of Get Well Centers works to allay the guilt many parents feel when leaving their sick children in a new place, said president Stephen LoJacono. But once the parents see the facility, once they see how clean and bright the facility is, they have no problem leaving the child. It's like any other child care, really.