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Upland County, Calif., Hospital Provides Workers One-Stop Shopping on the Job.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
By Andrew Moyle, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 25--UPLAND, Calif.--Like most people, Barbara Smolinski bears the brunt of the 21st-century time crunch.
The San Antonio Community Hospital radiology technologist operates Magnetic Resonance Imagery equipment eight hours a day, as well as taking care of daughters Molly and Audrey. Her husband Louis works as a construction manager in Palmdale, and is equally short on time.
Family errands -- which can range from dry cleaning to developing film to mailing packages -- can steal up to an hour a day from the Alta Loma family.
dock3 will give them back 55 minutes.
"Most women, we run around with our heads cut off," Smolinski said....
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