One in every of Crothall’s longest-serving staff not too long ago celebrated her sixtieth birthdaye anniversary in healthcare.

Carolyn Mixon, Environmental Providers Operations Supervisor at Walker Baptist Medical Heart in Jasper, Alabama, started working as a housekeeper in 1965. She started her profession on the former Peoples Hospital and moved to Walker Baptist when it opened in 1980.

To have fun the milestone, her pals and colleagues introduced the 80-year-old with a certificates and plaque, and handled her to dinner at a neighborhood restaurant. She additionally obtained a proclamation from Jasper Mayor Gary Cowen recognizing her service to the neighborhood.

“Carolyn Mixon has devoted 60 years to healthcare and has demonstrated distinctive service, management and care to numerous sufferers and households in our neighborhood,” the proclamation mentioned.

The way it began

Carolyn remembers that she began working as a housekeeper on the age of 20.

“Mine cousin was the one housekeeper on the time. I began working part-time, and when she wanted break day, I grew to become a full-time worker.”

Mixon was featured in a neighborhood journal as a “Healthcare Hero” for her work through the COVID-19 pandemic. She says working in healthcare has been a blessing all these years.

“It brings me nice pleasure to work in healthcare to assist each affected person who walks by the doorways of Walker Baptist,” she mentioned in 2020.

Working in healthcare permits me to provide sufferers a way of hope and confidence. Working in healthcare has allowed me to satisfy my civic responsibility inside the Walker County neighborhood.

-Carolyn Mixon

Her supervisor, Shanta Henderson, says Carolyn oversees the staff when she’s on trip or wanted elsewhere, and that is her job work ethic and her potential to deal with every affected person with care are the explanations for her success.

“She labored onerous and labored her approach up from housekeeper to operations supervisor,” mentioned Henderson. “She’s relentless, she does not know the way to cease working and can simply hold going. She’s positively the Energizer Bunny.”

Carolyn enjoys a number of elements of her tasks, though her favourite job is instructing new housekeepers from the start the way to correctly clear affected person rooms and different areas of the hospital.

“She does an exceptional job coaching our new hires,” says Henderson. “Our staff leaders would positively say she pushes them onerous, however most significantly she is there for them.”

Carolyn is deeply concerned in her church and is thought for her generosity, donating cash to St. Jude’s Kids’s Hospital and different nonprofit organizations. “When you name her, she’s going to donate one thing,” says Henderson.

Carolyn attributes her lengthy profession to Crothall and stays dedicated to serving to sufferers and guests on the hospital.

“Crothall is a good firm and has been superb to me and the staff. I believe it’s a nice firm to work for,” she says.

And the important thing to her success?

“Simply bringing a smile to the sufferers and guests as they clear their rooms and pray with the staff,” says Carolyn.