HealthStream Research takes Thanksgiving quite seriously—we’ve got a lot to be thankful for!  Thankful for our clients, their increasingly satisfied patients across America, our fantastic employees . . . the list could go on endlessly. But since ‘thanks’ is both a noun and a verb, we had to do more than simply say what we are thankful for.  We wanted to put our thanks into action.

Part of that ‘action’ was a tremendous amount of cooking.  If ever a company’s heart could be reached through its stomach, then we were that company on Tuesday, November 22.  Our hearts were as full of camaraderie and thankfulness as our bellies were full of fantastic food.   The turkey was viciously carved up with palpable precision by Paul Staros—our Senior Vice President and Nebraska native, wearing a Redskins apron and wielding an electric knife.  It almost sounds like there should be a punch-line here.

In addition to the turkey we had ham, dressing (three kinds), sweet potatoes (two wildly different recipes—traditional and Crazy Spicy), deviled eggs, casseroles (too many to count, but not too many for us to eat), desserts (enough for its own table!), gravies, soups, dips, chips, punch, sodas, and cranberry sauces (including a crowd favorite made with port).  As always, this holiday celebration was for all departments and all shifts—one of the keys to building a family environment is to celebrate everything together.