Betty Curry, Server at Atlas Senior Dwelling, has been named a 2024 Frontline Honors honoree by Senior Housing Information.
To grow to be a Frontline honoree, a person is nominated by their friends. The candidate have to be:
- A devoted, high-performing frontline employee who delivers distinctive experiences and outcomes
- A passionate employee who is aware of the best way to put their imaginative and prescient into for the great of their respective trade, the sufferers and residents they serve, and their households
- An advocate for his or her trade and their fellow colleagues
Senior Housing Information just lately caught up with Curry to debate their time within the senior housing & senior dwelling trade.
SHN: What drew you to this trade?
Curry: Years in the past, after taking good care of my husband and my grandchildren, I used to be doing nothing and I needed a job. I began wanting on-line and noticed a job for a Server. I made a decision to attempt it out. It was one thing I had by no means accomplished earlier than.
SHN: What’s your largest lesson realized since beginning to work within the trade?
Curry: The largest lesson I’ve realized is that you must have coronary heart to work on this trade. I don’t care what division you’re employed in, you continue to need to have coronary heart and understanding.
SHN: What’s your favourite half about your job?
Curry: The residents. They’re fantastic and I like each one in every of them. I get to know dementia. My husband had dementia, however I didn’t know something about it. Since I’ve realized extra about it, I can perceive the residents higher.
SHN: What would you like most people to higher perceive about your job and the trade you serve?
Curry: I would like them to know that, and I hate to repeat myself, however take coronary heart. This isn’t only a job. In the event you take a look at this as only a job, you do not want to do it. The residents are common those who had common jobs, good individuals, had skilled jobs, not simply sick individuals.
SHN: What’s one thing that you simply want different individuals in your group — significantly leaders who don’t work on the entrance strains — understood higher about your job?
Curry: I would love for them to know that it simply takes a lot to be on this trade. You’ve to have the ability to perceive every particular person.
To view your complete Frontline Honors Class of 2024, go to https://frontlinehonors.com/.
