Nutritional Services Grill Cook Cathy Honored as Employee of the Month

Nutritional Services Grill Cook Cathy has received North Oaks Health System's Employee of the Month Award for November 2021.

Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. For Cathy, truer words have never been spoken.

“A smile can change someone’s day for the better,” shares Cathy.

She joined the North Oaks Nutritional Services team in 1993 as a Grill Cook and hasn’t looked back.

“I really like what I do,” Cathy explains. “Treating our customers and my coworkers with kindness and respect is my commitment to our mission of improving lives.”

A graduate of Woodland High School in Hillsdale, Cathy makes her home in Hammond. She is mother to six children ranging in age from 29 to 41 – Kimya, Tommie, Johnneke, Ayla, Quenton and Aasinid – and has 25 grandchildren.

Reading, baking and putting together jigsaw puzzles are some of Cathy’s favorite pastimes, but above all, she cherishes family time.

“Cathy has been a dependable member of our Nutritional Services team for 28 years and counting," asserts Ann McDaniel-Hall, Nutritional Services Director. "When it comes to customer service, her kindness, ability to anticipate needs and the respect that she shows visitors to our Cafeteria and her coworkers shines bright.”