'Tis the season and people all around the world are finding ways to share with those less fortunate.
Among those people doing the sharing, the staff at Castle Medical Center.
Staff members from different units in the hospital make it a habit each year to adopt a family in the community - a family which may have fallen on hard times.
"This is one of the events that our team looks forward to the most. They really get behind adopting our family and making sure that they have as special a Christmas as the rest of our team," said Suzanne Asaro of the Castle Medical Center Rehab Unit.
Asaro and others we talked with agree, the gift-giving is a morale booster for the individual hospital teams.
"We have a wrapping party and they truly enjoy making sure that this family has a special Christmas," said Asaro.
Chaplain David Rasmussen heads up the family adoption program. He says things are a bit different this year from years past.
"This year, we haven't had the requests for all the fancy toys. This year, we've had more requests for some of the basics - things like clothing, shoes, just basic down to earth stuff that is needed," said David Rasmussen, Castle chaplin.
There are lots of families that need help, especially this time of year. Asaro talked about the Rehab unit's adopted family.
"It's a single mother with a young son and daughter and they've gone through a little bit of a hard time these last few years and we really thought that it was really important, not only for the children of course to have a great Christmas, but also the mother," said Asaro.
"We're doing what we can to help what we can, to help who we can in ways we can. That's part of our sacred work here at the hospital," said Rasmussen.
