This actually, in terms of posting the staffing plans, is about not having the government tell hospitals and nurses how to staff their units. It's about providing the right care, not the same care.

There must be protection for the little people. People working in the ports, the railway drivers, craftsmen, nurses in hospitals, they need somebody in this deregulated Europe that will protect them.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.

The people putting on your roof, your teachers, the nurses in your hospitals — those are the people that are living there because it's what they can afford as they start out.

We're so thankful for the nurses, the caregivers, the doctors — they have shown so much kindness and respect.

We try to provide mostly clothing items, but we've also extended to hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan that need supplies, including bed sheets. The project started supporting three hospitals In Iraq in 2005 and one in Afghanistan this year.