Your Best Medicine with Kathy Romack

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work at a hospital? What types of jobs are available here? Or what it means to be part of BJC, one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the country? Learn more in this new series of interviews with the dedicated team members of Christian Hospital and Northwest HealthCare. 

Kathy Romack has worked for 32 years in the Christian Hospital Lab and is a technical coordinator in the Christian Hospital Laboratory’s Flow Cytometry and Hematology Department.

In your job, how do you provide our patients with your best medicine?

I started working the night shift and did all areas of the Lab. Then I went to Toxicology and then went to Hematology and in the last year I’ve been technical coordinator for Flow Cytometry and Hematology. I think the longevity of being here and having the expertise and experience is how I provide my best medicine with the type of testing we do because the Flow Cytometry Lab is very specialized and individual department. We did just get a new piece of state-of the-art equipment so that is another way we provide best medicine.

What is your favorite thing/or most rewarding about your job?

I like everything about my job. I think it always comes down to the people. We’ve all been here so long. We’ve been through weddings, children and now with a lot us here 30-plus years we’re getting into the grandchildren. I enjoy the work I’ve done otherwise I wouldn’t have been here for so long.

Why do you choose to work at Christian Hospital?

Number one, I live in the community. I’m about 10 minutes from here. I think it’s very beneficial to work in the community in which you live. We’re serving the people that are my peers and neighbors.