Cherokee Indian Hospital honors outstanding employees
Cherokee Indian Hospital honored its outstanding employees at its annual awards ceremony, held virtually this year, on Tuesday, April 6, and two members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians took the top honors. Brooke Brown, Tsali Care performance improvement specialist, was named the 2020 Hayes Award recipient, and Dr. Blythe Winchester, Tsali Care Center medical director, was named Cherokee Indian Hospital Employee of the Year.
Brooke Brown
“Working with the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority (CIHA) has been a transformative process,” said Brown. “The connections I make and the impacts of those relationships are long lasting. In coming to this organization years ago, I assumed that I would help heal others being that it is a hospital. Very unexpectedly, in turn, this organization is also helping to heal me – teaching me to advocate, use my voice, when to lead and when to sit back, and engage in a healing journey.”