Staff Service Recognition Celebration
Staff Highlights
A highlight of my years while working at
BOPDHB is being part of a great team of
people who work in the Emergency Dept. The
staff inspire me to do my very best every day
and I enjoy the contact with patients coming
in and being treated in the ED Dept. I have
worked in other depts. I feel very proud to be a
part of the ED team.
Education Centre Team with Anne Stevens (15 yrs) and Penny Horton
(25 yrs).
Stephen Layne, Health Protection Team
Leader, Toi Te Ora (10 yrs) and Stephen
Lane, Registered Nurse, Community
Mental Health (25 yrs).
Cake Cutter Yvonne Baker, Registered
Nurse, SCBU (37 yrs) with Board Chair,
Sally Webb.
Diane Cockrell, Microster Administrator (15 yrs) with Mum Florrie and
daughter Shayna.
Ted Harper, Employee
Health & Safety Manager,
Governance & Quality
(15 yrs).
I enjoy working as part of a small team at the
Cancer Centre. The team is supportive and
encouraging. I have had the opportunity to
study and develop my Nursing practice. The
upcoming developments in Cancer care are
exciting and offer hope to patients.
Many positive changes, particularly innovations
in technology – state of the art diagnostic
equipment in the area in which I work, plus
huge advances in information / communication
technologies, all of which contribute to improved
outcomes for our patients.
Maternity and SCBU team. Louise Maltby, Registered Midwife (10 yrs), Raewyn Sherratt, Lactation Consultant (39
yrs), Joy MacMillan, Registered Obstetric Nurse (44 yrs), Janice Watson, Registered Nurse (20 yrs), Yvonne Baker,
Registered Nurse (37 yrs), Marian Wordsworth, Clinical Nurse Co-ordinator SCBU (25 yrs), Shelley Bosma, Registered
Nurse (20 yrs) and Helen Williams, Registered Midwife (37 yrs) - AMAZING - with Midwifery Leader, Marg Norris.
Kelly Orrell, Decision
Support Analyst (10 yrs).
A wonderful place to work. Tauranga is no longer
a hospital trained Nursing centre, it is a provider
of training for both tech trained Nurses and
placements for our young developing medical
professionals, e.g. Doctors, Radiology Students,
Speech & Language etc. The buildings are one by
one being replaced with state of the art resources.
Tauranga has changed from a retirement centre to
a desirable place to live and bring up families. Our
population is one of the biggest changes I have
personally witnessed. Same great place, more
people just know about it.
Phil Church, Registered
Nurse, Community Mental
Health (20 yrs).
Lesley Watkins, Portfolio
Manager, Mental Health
& Addictions, Planning &
Funding (25 yrs).
The highlight of my 20 years with the BOPDHB
has been making friends and working with
dedicated, kind and knowledgeable colleagues.
I have been privileged to work mostly in D/N
and OPD, both where I found supportive and
friendly staff members, always willing to pass
on knowledge and assist in any situation.
People are definitely the most important asset
an organisation can have and good people
make a great organisation.
Julie Williams, Hospital
Co-ordinator (30 yrs).
Cheryl Thompson,
Administration Coordinator, Community
Mental Health (40 yrs).
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