Mark Alexander, Executive Director

How about a date?! A calendar date that is!! We all have numerous days and dates in our own life that have great meaning, and Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is no different. Let's just pick a few - 1948, 1966, 1979, 1992, 2007, and of course there's always Dec, 2000 (more on that later!). Each one of those dates has a special meaning here at Bay Area, and I'm going to take just a moment to tell you abut each one. 

 Shirlyn Cummings and husband, Clark

Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is proud to welcome new member, Shirlyn Cummings, to our Board of Directors. Shirlyn is the Director of Talent Management for the Bayer MaterialScience LLC (EMS) NAFTA Production & Technology community. She is based out of the Baytown Industrial Park Facility in Baytown, Texas. Shirlyn serves on the Baytown Site Leadership Team as well as NAFTA Bayer Material Science's Human Resources Managers Forum, and is the US region's representative to Bayer's global Talent Management community.

In her current role, Cummings is responsible for talent management projects and initiatives to support the ten BMS manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico. Major focus areas include competency modeling, regional tools and programs for employee development, develoment of pipeline programs for sourcing and growing technical talent, and workplace planning.

As parents, we have a certain sixth sense when it comes to our children. Even when cries sound the same, we can tell the difference between a "hungry cry," a "dirty diaper cry," and a "hold me cry." Sometimes, we get the feeling that something is not quite right, but we can't put our fingert on it. So, we reach out to others and express our concerns and receive reassurances that everything is fine and our child is developing normally.