Christiana Care team rescues feathered family in need
Christiana Care Health System is dedicated to partnering with patients and their families — even when those families have feathers! A mother duck and her six ducklings were nesting near the Christiana Surgicenter, and the brood of ducklings became trapped after they fell into a storm drain. Staff from Christiana Care’s Maintenance and Fire Protection departments were alerted and raced to the rescue, carefully entering the storm drain and moving the baby birds to safety. Unfortunately, the ducklings didn’t learn from their mistake and had to be rescued again the following week. The Christiana Care team rescued them again and then moved the entire family to the pond behind the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, where they seem happy and healthy.
Special thanks to staff members Buck Brownlee, Todd Toulson, Mike DiFrancesco, Mark Fafalios, Richard McDowell, Jeff Benyo, Richard Domyan, Lewis Fanny, Jeff Ceban, Mike Hallman, Matt Jolley, Richard Allen, Jeff Cooper, Tom Messick and Katie Duonnolo, who demonstrated that The Christiana Care Way is to provide respectful, expert care to all of our neighbors — no matter who they are.
