Xerox Service Engineer Granted Leave to Work with AIDS Patients

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Xerox Service Engineer Granted Leave to Work with AIDS Patients

PR Newswire (12/19/94)

Xerox Corporation has granted Stephan Lee Clark six months of leave with pay to care for AIDS patients at the Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle--the first skilled nursing home in the nation for people dying of AIDS. Clark made a promise to a Xerox colleague, George Robbins, shortly before Robbins' death from AIDS, that he would do something to help others in the final stages of the disease. "So many patients have been abandoned by their family and friends," said Clark. "Bailey-Boushay helps to lessen their fears and loneliness." Robbins was on the waiting list for Bailey-Boushay. When he became too weak to care for himself, his insurance company paid for someone to care for him during the day, while Clark and his wife cared for him at night.

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