Ann Mitchell, Patient Access Department; Kathy Boll, pharmacy technician, Brown Drug; and Tammy Haggerty, guest services representative, are retiring from Blessing Hospital.
Mitchell, clinic registration and scheduling specialist, Patient Access department, retires on Tuesday, September 2, after 24 years of service.
“Find a job you love to do and it feels as if you are hanging out with friends all day,” she said. “I have loved my job with Blessing, meeting and talking with people all day long. I have always thought of our patients as family and I have treated them as I would my own family.”
Mitchell has nine sisters and seven brothers.
Her career at Blessing has included service as a unit secretary on a medical surgical unit and the Skilled Nursing Unit, and as a patient access representative in Family Medicine at the Blessing Health Center, before joining Clinic Centralized Scheduling and the position from which she is retiring.
Born and raised in Quincy, Mitchell graduated from Quincy Notre Dame High School. She lived in San Diego, California, for 15 years before moving back to Quincy in 2000 and joining Blessing.
Boll retires on September 3 with 31 years of service. She was among the first pharmacy technicians in the country to have earned Certified Pharmacy Technician Advanced status (CPhT-Adv).
Her career at Blessing began as a member of the hospital-based pharmacy team for 16 years. Boll then joined Blessing Family Medicine as a receptionist for nine years. She returned to her pharmacy roots when given the opportunity to open and run the pharmacy service at Blessing’s Be Well Employer Clinic. After five years that service was moved to Brown Drug and Boll moved with it for the last year of her career.
Before joining Blessing, she was a pharmacy technician at the former Medicine Shoppe in Quincy.
Boll is a member of the National Pharmacy Technician Association, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
“I was very proud to be one of the first pharmacy technicians in the country to have achieved Certified Pharmacy Technician Advanced status, when the designation became possible,” she said.
Boll was also among Blessing’s first nationally certified pharmacy technicians in 1995.
“I will very much miss all of the coworkers I have had over the past 30-plus years, as well as all of the patients I have worked with and gotten to know. It has been so gratifying to me to help them understand their medications and why they are taking them. It feels good to make a positive impact on people’s knowledge and understanding of their health,” she concluded.
A graduate of Quincy Notre Dame High School and of Quincy University with a bachelor degree in communications, Boll and her husband Steve are members of St. Peter Church, Quincy. They have three grown children, Brittany, Kylene and Joshua and three grandchildren Mayla, Hayden, and Arya.
Haggerty retires on September 5 with 24 years of service. In addition to the guest services representative position from which she is retiring, Haggerty spent many years behind the cash register in the Blessing Hospital cafeteria as a member of the Food & Nutrition department. Both positions put her in daily contact with many hospital visitors and staff.
“There are lots of things you and I said to each other, ‘Good morning. How are you doing? Are you behaving? Are they keeping you busy? Have a great day!’ And there were lots of hugs. You all have touched my life in one way or another. You are all special and don’t let anyone tell you different. I will miss you guys. Thank you,” she said.
In addition to the Guest Services and Food & Nutrition departments, Haggerty worked on the Blessing Home Care and Denman Linen teams during her career.
A Quincy native and Quincy High School graduate, Haggerty has been married to husband Tom for 25 years, and is the sister of Tim (wife Lora), Tony (wife Teri) and Troy (wife Coya) McEwen.