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Hospital Medical Center. There are about 100 employees with disabilities working in departments throughout the hospital — all excelling at complex jobs most people thought they’d never be able to do.
Annie Sublett, a young woman with Down’s Syndrome, is one of them. She has spent the last 10 years working as the instrument sterilizer at the hospital’s dental clinic.
“It’s amazing to watch her,” says Annie’s supervisor, JoAnn Shumate. “She starts each day by disinfecting all the hand pieces used in the clinic the previous day, then once they’re clean, she’s also the one who repackages the instruments for the dentists and hygenists. I don’t know how she does it, but she handles more than 100 instruments, and gets it right every time.”
Head over to the hospital’s emergency room, the post anesthesia care unit (PACU), or even the pharmacy and you’d think they had cloned Annie. “People with disabilities are not only succeeding but excelling at jobs in those departments too,” says Erin
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