Fifty years of service: Eva Glover receives her long-service award from Kyabram District Health Service chief executive Anne McEvoy.
Eva Glover headlined a list of 11 Kyabram District Health Service staff that were recognised for long service late last month.
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Eva’s 50-year stint with KDHS started in the kitchen as a domestic, when employees used to do broken shifts where they would come into work for a few hours, go home for a few hours and come back again.
They had to slice the bread and meat using a slicing machine and also squeezed oranges from the orange tree for patients.
Eva told the gathering she used to come to work with rollers in her hair on a Saturday, so she was ready to go out on a Saturday night.
“I’ve made lifelong friends at KDHS and I appreciate the work-life balance that KDHS has been able to provide,” she said.
Pamela Spokes received a 25-year service award and Valerie Kennedy was recognised for 20 years of service.
Pam has worked with the cleaning and laundry teams and spent more recent times as part of the Sheridan cleaning team.
Valerie started in the kitchen at KDHS, before moving to PSA work.
Beverley Hunt and Joanne Pyke were recognised for 20 years of service, the majority of their careers spent in acute services, and both have continued learning and upskilling.
In recent years, they were involved in the COVID-19 testing clinics and then the vaccination clinics, with Jo also working as the team leader for the COVID-19 response team.
Alicia Parsons has spent 15 years at KDHS, starting in community health in reception for Tongala Health and working with the Tongala working party to build relationships and re-establish KDHS services provided from the Tongala location.
She assisted with health promotion at community events and assisted with Men’s Gateway and women’s socialising groups starting in Tongala.
She received a part-time contract working in human resources (which moved to medical records) and also worked in the quality department.
In the past 12 months she has been successful in upskilling to backfill for the client services manager during periods of leave and recently completed the Emerging Leaders short course.
Annette Keck was also recognised for providing meals at the Rochester flood-relief site.
Danielle Shelton (12 years of service before her recent resignation), Sandra Dunwoodie (10 years of service), Murray Tenace (10 years), Maree ‘Polly’ Polwarth (15 years) and Thomas Druggan (15 years) were other award recipients.
There will be further presentations made at the annual general meeting on Tuesday, February 28.
10 years of service: Sandra Dunwoodie, with chief executive Anne McEvoy and board chairman Dale Denham appreciating her decade of diligence.
Official party: Emma Demay, Jon Laughlin, Chris Motton (board chair) and Dale Denham (deputy board chair) at the long service awards.
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