SCRMC recognizes three employees with 50 years’ service
South Central Regional Medical Center is honoring three employees who have each served the Pine Belt for 50 years, the hospital said. Judy Hicks, Nell Warren and Jodie Mancil all began working at the facility in July 1975, when it was known as Jones County Community Hospital.
Judy Hicks, a Laurel native, said she spent much of her adolescence in Europe because her father served in the Army. She began in admissions at age 21 and recalled struggling with insurance work at first. “I didn’t know what insurance was or what a policy was,” she said. She moved into the insurance department after two years, rose to director of patient accounts and served in that role until 2019; she is now training her replacements.
Nell Warren, a native of Paulding who graduated from South Side High School in Heidelberg, started as a dietary helper preparing tube feeds, working the dish room and food line. She now staffs the physicians’ lounge, ensuring doctors are cared for nutritionally and offering encouragement. “I love people,” Warren said. “I like to hug.”
Jodie Mancil, born in Texas, lived abroad as a child while her father worked in the oil industry, including time in Sicily and Libya. She earned a bachelor’s degree in medical technology from the University of Southern Mississippi and joined the hospital as a medical technologist. Mancil has served as blood bank supervisor for nearly 10 years and teaches students in the lab. “It is my calling from the Lord to teach,” she said.
