When the Daughters left Austin in 2014, the
administrative roles they had played for decades now had to be filled by
others. Sister Teresa George, for example, was also the Chief Operating Officer
of Dell Children’s Medical Center (as well as the Children’s Hospital of Austin
that preceded it).
It wasn’t long before I began to miss seeing
the Daughters as we continued our work in their name. Whether sharing a table
in the cafeteria, exchanging pleasantries on an elevator, or shooting the
breeze while hanging out by the printer.
With their presence represented mostly in
two-dimensional imagery, carefully framed and arranged in public places, the
work environment began to evolve.
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| Health care advocates demonstrating outside the office of Senator John Cornyn. |
As fate would have it, health care was becoming a more prominent political issue around that same time. Before long, it would be ubiquitous – with many re-positioning health care as a basic human right, rather than a privilege.
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