Crothall’s Carolyn Mixon Celebrates 60 Years in Healthcare

One in all Crothall’s longest-running associates lately celebrated her 60th work anniversary within the healthcare trade. 

Carolyn Mixon, Environmental Companies operations supervisor at Walker Baptist Medical Heart in Jasper, Alabama, started working as a housekeeper in 1965. She began her profession at the previous Peoples Hospital and moved to Walker Baptist when IT opened in 1980. 

To have a good time this milestone, her mates and associates offered the 80-year-old with a certificates and a plaque, and handled her to dinner at an area restaurant. She additionally acquired a proclamation from Jasper Mayor Gary Cowen, recognizing her service to the group. 

“Carolyn Mixon has devoted 60 years to the healthcare occupation, demonstrating distinctive service, management, and care to numerous sufferers and households all through our group,” the proclamation learn. 

How IT Started 

Carolyn remembers starting work as a housekeeper at age 20. 

“My cousin was the one housekeeper on the time. I began out working part-time, and when she wanted day off, I turned a full-time worker.” 

Mixon was featured as a “Healthcare Hero” in an area journal for her work in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that working within the healthcare trade all these years has been a blessing. 

“Serving inside healthcare provides me nice pleasure to have the ability to assist each affected person that enters the doorways of Walker Baptist,” she stated in 2020. 

Being within the healthcare setting permits me to offer a way of hope and religion to the sufferers. Selecting to work in healthcare has allowed me to meet my civic obligation throughout the Walker County group.

-Carolyn Mixon

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

“She has labored arduous and labored her manner up, from housekeeper to operations supervisor,” says Henderson. ” She is relentless, she doesn’t know the way to cease working, and will preserve going and going. She’s positively the Energizer Bunny.” 

Carolyn enjoys a number of features of her duties, although her favourite is serving to new housekeepers be taught the appropriate strategy to clear affected person rooms and different areas of the hospital from the beginning. 

“She does a phenomenal job coaching our new associates,” says Henderson. “Our group leads would positively say she drives them arduous, however most significantly, she is there for them.” 

Carolyn is closely concerned together with her church and is well-known for her generosity, donating cash to St. Jude’s Kids’s Hospital and different nonprofit organizations. “If you happen to name her on the cellphone, she’s going to donate one thing,” says Henderson. 

Carolyn attributes her profession longevity to Crothall and stays devoted to serving to sufferers and guests on the hospital. 

“Crothall is a tremendous firm and has been superb to me and the group. I believe IT’s an superior firm to work for,” she says.  

And the important thing to her success?  

“Merely conserving a smile on the sufferers and guests whereas cleansing their rooms and praying with the group,” says Carolyn.