“There are Growth Opportunities.”
Ask Mona Hoekstra about MIC’s company culture, and you’ll get an enthusiastic response.
When she started working as an ultrasound technologist at MIC 27 years ago, she didn’t expect to be dealing with architects, blueprints, or construction contractors.
Yet that’s exactly what she does as MIC’s coordinator of special projects, overseeing the design and construction of new clinics as well as clinic renovations.
Hoekstra shares her story not to talk about herself, but to illustrate what makes MIC’s company culture special. “That’s what MIC really supported – the growth and development of their people. And I think that’s what really sets them apart,” she says.
Over the years, she took on progressively larger roles, moving from technologist to site manager to MIC’s ultrasound modality coordinator before assuming her current role.
“If people want challenges or something different, there are opportunities. You just have to identify them.” Hoekstra says MIC’s company culture plays a large role in attracting—and keeping—good employees.
Keeping Valued Employees
“It’s as though everyone wants you to succeed and do better.”
One of those longtime employees is Kelly Kaasa, who leads the reception team at Century Park, one of MIC’s largest clinics. In 1988, she started working at one of the radiology groups that later merged to form MIC.
She’s grown her career here, she says, partly because the company has built a culture that lifts employees, and where staff feel comfortable giving feedback to managers. “I love how inclusive everything is. I think everybody respects each other,” Kaasa says.
At MIC’s Synergy Wellness Centre in Sherwood Park, nuclear medicine technologist Melodie Sebastian shares the same milestone as MIC. Thirty years ago, she was one of the first technologists hired by the newly formed company.
Initially drawn to the nuclear medicine field because she was interested in physics, Sebastian says she also enjoys the mix of patient care, application of technology, and opportunities to support her colleagues. “Everybody is happy to be here. We’ve got each other’s backs,” she says.
That culture of encouragement is something Dahlela Choufi also values. “I’ve noticed great professional support for new hires,” says Choufi, an X-ray technologist at MIC’s Namao clinic. At MIC, clinical educators offer support and feedback to new technologists adjusting to the workplace.
Now, less than a year after graduating from NAIT’s Medical Radiologic Technology program, Choufi is already growing in her career, training in mammography with the help of experienced technologists. “It’s as though everyone wants you to succeed and do better.”