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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
AMANDA ZACEK
Amanda Zacek is Hurley’s Employee of the Month for December 2022. She has been at Hurley since 2015, starting as a medical assistant in the Urgent Care, where she stayed for two years, before transferring to the Wound Clinic for one year. For the last five years, she has worked in the Specialty Clinic, located in the Medical Office Building. A normal day for her is checking in patients, getting them in rooms for doctors, and going over their medical history and vitals. Her and her coworkers also perform wound care and injections. To her, the best part about her job is “meeting different people every day, and getting to know recurrent patients when they come in frequently. It’s nice to have a conversation with a patient when they know about your life and you know about theirs.”
One day last month, Amanda received an email that she needed to sign off on some paperwork. When she arrived at the desk, Melany Gavulic and Amy Benko were there, with other administrators and her own team, to announce that she was being awarded with Employee of the Month. She was shocked, as she enjoys just coming to work and performing her work to the best of her abilities, but she values the appreciation that the award shows both for her and the other medical assistant that works in the Specialty Clinic.
When not at Hurley, she loves to go home and spend time with her family. Amanda and her husband have two boys who are both involved in a variety of activities, including sports and band. These keep everyone busy enough, and they also have a dog that likes its walks. When they are able, she likes to just sit down and maybe get to enjoy a TV show once in a while.
Amanda is happy that she ended up at Hurley. Right out of school she had started work at a research facility in Bay City, but she eventually found the position at Hurley, which was much closer to home and offered great hours. Since then, she says she has had a lot of great experiences, even if they include working on weekends. She explains, “We’d have potlucks on weekends. They made working the weekends better, just to take a minute and joke around and relax. They made the job fun.”
Amanda received a gift package that included a pizza party with her team, a day off with pay, a Team Hurley All-Star fleece jacket, a one-month membership to the YMCA, a $25 Sodexo gift card, a $25 gift card from Sovita Credit Union, a $25 gift card to the Hurley Lobby Shop, and a framed certificate. Congratulations, Amanda!
