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5 COLOURS OF CRANBROOK, SUMMER 2017

Meet Gail Worthington-Eyre

Group Care & Services Manager

Thank you all for the warm welcome Several years later I moved into TV and radio marketing
and promotion and this then led me in the 90’s to move
you have all given me in your to the US where I opened my own successful marketing

residences and at West Street over company. I sold my company in 2005 and returned to
Australia in 2006 to help care for my aged parents and
the past few months. then moved back into aged care.

I love aged care and am passionate about supporting our
I am delighted to be a member of the Cranbrook Care staff to deliver a high standard of care to our residents
team and to be in a position that allows me to draw on my thus ensuring that every day lived in one of our beautiful
experience and support the leadership teams in each of our homes is a great day. In order to deliver this we need to
beautiful residences.
have skilled and happy staff that feel valued and love
I have had a varied working life starting out in nursing many coming to work. This means we need to have good systems
years ago at Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia. I and processes in place to provide us with the tools and
was one of the first nurses to work and train in the hospital guidance we all need to understand and deliver what is
and I still recall that we had 11 admissions on our opening expected of us all in our working life.
day. I worked in general medical and later in coronary I am humbled to see that the care in Cranbrook Care
care and high dependency before moving into aged care is from the heart and transcends to all people in the
where I stayed happily for a further 10 years. I left nursing Cranbrook family – staff, residents, family and contractors.
to work in general business and health promotion and I look forward to working with you all and please introduce
accepted a position in marketing with a statutory authority, yourselves when you see me at your residence, I will be
Foundation SA and was responsible for the promotional delighted to meet you.
aspects of some 700 sponsorships that were granted to
promote health and healthy living. You will all know some
of the health messages I was responsible for, SunSmart,
Heart Health, Quit, Safe Sex, Asthma, falls prevention
and healthy eating.