These Fort Worth Health Care Workers Have Access to Child Care at Their Workplace. How?

January 16, 2025 – In an article for the Fort Worth Star Telegram about how many healthcare workers in Fort Worth, TX have access to on-site child care, the author features Bright Horizons’ clients on-site child care centers including Cook Children’s Health Care System, Texas Health Resources and Baylor Scott & White Health and interviews Priya Krishnan, chief digital and transformation officer for Bright Horizons, about the importance of employer-sponsored child care.

The centers in the Fort Worth Medical District are among the two-thirds of Bright Horizons’ 600 campuses nationwide that are employer-sponsored, according to the child care provider. Priya Krishnan, chief digital and transformation officer for Bright Horizons, told the Star-Telegram that its role is to provide quality care to enrolled children while the employer provides access and affordability to parents. 

The employer typically provides the space, covers the costs of wages and infrastructure and then decides how much tuition to charge to families. “We are like the service provider. But typically in a family’s life, the three stakeholders are family, the government who gets the taxes of the family’s work and then the employer who gets the productivity. We’re just the enabler in that system to say, ‘Hey, this is important. We can provide the service, and we can provide it at high quality,’” Krishnan said.

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