NEW ALBANY — Betty Kopp has labored at Baptist Health Floyd, previously Floyd Memorial Hospital, for 50 years, making her the longest tenured worker at the moment working on the New Albany hospital.
She began when she was 16 years outdated, and through the years, she has served in varied roles within the hospital’s meals and diet providers division.
On Thursday, Baptist Health Floyd employees honored her anniversary with a shock social gathering within the hospital’s cafeteria. She was excited when she discovered in regards to the social gathering, she mentioned.
“I walked in, and I mentioned ‘oh my,’” she said.
She currently enjoys working in the office as a call center specialist for Baptist Health’s meals providers, which entails taking meals orders from sufferers. Kopp mentioned the employees at Baptist Health Floyd is “just wonderful.”
“They’re very passionate coworkers,” she mentioned. “They all work together, and they work with you. It’s been great.”
During her celebration, Kopp loved cake and items from her coworkers, together with a giant card thanking her for her years of service to the hospital.
Renee Utley has labored for six years with Kopp within the name heart, and she or he describes her coworker as having a “big heart.”
“I love Betty — she’s like my best friend,” Utley mentioned. “She’s hilarious, and we laugh all the time in the office. She’s constantly doing something that’s silly and funny.”
Nick Theohares, vice chairman of operations at Baptist Health Floyd, mentioned it’s wonderful to rejoice an worker who has labored 50 years on the similar place.
“You just don’t see that anymore,” he mentioned. “For somebody to have 50 years, that truly is an accomplishment.”
He is impressed by Kopp’s dedication.
“Among all the Baptist facilities, we’re the highest performer in terms of patient satisfaction,” Theohares mentioned. “We wouldn’t be if we didn’t have people like Betty.”
Heather Shrum, meals and diet providers director at Baptist Health Floyd, mentioned it it has been a pleasure to function Kopp’s supervisor for 2 years. She disguised the social gathering as a division assembly to shock Kopp.
“I couldn’t ask for someone better to take care of our patients in the call center, and I’m just to proud to have her,” she mentioned. “She has an ideal work ethic, and she or he’s reliable. She is aware of our program so nicely and has been in a position to adapt by means of all of the years to no matter is new and subsequent. Someone who can have the power for that form of change and never get wired — that positively makes her a celebrity.”
