Hospital Recognizes Employees for Years of Service
5/16/2022
The
Scotland County Hospital (SCH) Employee Experience Committee in Memphis
recognized employees for their years of service with the organization and
awarded service pins during National Hospital Week earlier this month.
There
are several employees at SCH that have been loyal to the organization for
multiple decades and received service pins this year. At the top of
that list, working 40 years, is Kelley Ketchum, RN. Kelley is a native of
Scotland County and while in high school, she was a "candy striper"
at the Hospital in the mid-70's. She graduated from nursing school as a
registered nurse at Southeastern Community College in Keokuk in 1982 and began
full-time as an RN at Scotland County Hospital on June 6, 1982. Over the course
of Kelley's 40 year career in nursing at SCH, she has worked in nearly every
department. You will primarily find Kelley, these days, in Cardiac Rehab, but
she also works several shifts on the Med-Surg floor. She is one of those
hard-working nurses that admits she really enjoys working the floor and
especially with the critically ill patients in intensive care and in the
Emergency Department. She said, "We have saved a lot of lives. There are
alot of people that would not still be in our community without our ER. It's
that simple." When she is not working, she says she's a home body, but she
really enjoys being outside the most, and she takes pride in her garden and her
property looking nice. She especially enjoys spending time with her children and
grandchildren.
The
Employee Experience Committee recognizes employees, annually, with service pins
in five year increments. Other employees receiving pins this year include:
25 year pins – Candace Alderton, Jamie Kice and Jeanette Fogle; 20 year pin - Dr.
Celeste Miller-Parish; 15 year pins Rich Jackson, Goldie Reiter, Deanna
Rowland, Randy Watkins and Ashley Ward; 10 year pins - Julie Cook & Kendra
Wettstein; and 5 year pins - Andrea Grogan, Sophia McKim, Tabitha Rohr, Dr.
Kelsey Davis-Humes, Courtney Shannan, Mike Smith, Shawna Stone & Randy
Talbert.
The
Hospital is in its 52nd year of providing healthcare services in the community
and opened its doors on July 20, 1970. Scotland County Hospital is a
Critical Access Hospital with 25 licensed beds and offers many outpatient
services, surgery, obstetrics, specialties and owns four rural health clinics
in Memphis, Edina, Lancaster and Wyaconda. The Hospital's mission is, "To
improve the health of the communities we serve, with services close to
home." Please consider establishing care with one of the physicians or clinicians
at Scotland County Hospital & Clinics if you are looking for primary healthcare
or a specialist, and if you ever need an outpatient service such as a radiology
test, lab draw or therapy services, please choose Scotland County Hospital in
Memphis.