John ‘Jack’ Healey and his daughter Glenda Brooker cooked up a plan to deliver one of the kindest gestures experienced by Bendigo Community Health Services staff in some time.

Jack’s daughter Glenda Brooker read a notice on a waiting room TV screen at our Eaglehawk site encouraging people to nominate staff providing excellent service for a Client Award.

Glenda was keen to have staff recognised given the support her father had received to maintain his health, wellbeing and mobility. There was just one problem … how could you nominate them all?

“Because my dad needed such a lot of care and he was constantly there, I felt like that we were part of the furniture and we just about knew every staff member by name there,’’ Glenda said.

"There are just too many wonderful people here at BCHS that take care of my father. I could never fill out a nomination for all of them.

“With all the attention that he’s had, not only there but at the Anne Caudle Centre as well, my father is now able to mow his lawns again and be so active again. It wasn’t like that a few months ago.”

So instead of filling out the nomination forms, Glenda and Jack put together a morning tea for the staff who care for them and the entire Eaglehawk site.

Team member and podiatrist Emma Millard said the staff involved in Jack’s care were delighted by the lovely gesture and recognition of the role they had played in keeping him as healthy and active as possible.

“Jack is a lovely gentleman who always provides a bit of humour and ‘cheek’ when he visits, and again we were very thankful for their kind thoughts,” Emma said.

Glenda who does a 160-kilometre round trip to help her father has also joined the BCHS Carers Wellbeing Program.