"Songs From the Heart Ease Hospital Visits" - This story will make you smile. :)

[Blue_In_AK]

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Singing valets at Providence treat patients to acts of kindness

By DEBRA McKINNEY
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Working out in the cold for eight hours a day, five days a week, parking cars for people coming to a place most would rather not be -- how does that make a young man feel?

Like singing.

It makes the valets at Providence Alaska Medical Center feel like singing, anyway.

They park cars. They sing. They retrieve cars. They sing.

Singing valets. It's a little like singing bartenders only without the hangover.

LeVant Logo, Sela Kakiva and Siaki Tito are the three-part harmony team. Terence Scanlan, Michael Scanlan and Jethro Taylor join in now and then too. They all work for Avascend, which contracts valet services to Providence.

There's nothing in that contract about serenading hospital patrons. These guys just started doing it on their own.

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Once in a while, the valets get a request to come inside and sing in a patient's room. They'll do it on a super slow day, if they can.

One woman, for instance, asked if they could sing to her daughter, who'd been in a car wreck and needed cheering up.

"It would be a blessing to sing for her," Kakiva told her.

And off they went.

[Arctic Dave]

1. These guys arereally nice.

A few friends of the family have been in the hospital lately and I had the pleasure of meeting the singers.

[Betsy Ross]

2. HA! I just got back from Providence Pavillion Medical Center,

in Oakland California, but my valet didn't sing.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I'm so sorry.

Maybe the next time you go back, you can point them to this article. :)

[wellstone dem]

4. What a great example of going the extra measure

for folks who really need it.