Lauren Tindall

Job Title
Director, Sunshine Coast.

Department/Location
St. Mary’s Hospital.

How long have you worked at VCH?
For 13 years.

Tell us what you do at VCH in one or two sentences:
My role is to provide a great team with every opportunity to provide the best care at St Mary’s Hospital, in the community and within our residential care homes on the Sunshine Coast.

What’s your favourite thing about your work?
The ability to laugh with team mates in spite of what might feel like the worse day at work.

How does your work contribute to the VCH True North goals?
Everything we do contributes. From the way we greet a potential customer in the hallway to helping care providers overcome obstacles in providing the best care.

One thing we might be surprised to learn about you:
My older sister is dragging my other sister and I up to Machu Picchu for her 40th birthday next year. We are scattered all over the world so I’m looking forward to spending some quality, out-of-breath time with them. Oh and actually, she is my younger sister!!!

Three things you always have in your fridge:
Milk, Corona and pre-sliced lime (it’s a real time saver).

What makes you happy?
My hairdresser….I don’t have a grey hair on my head.

Most healthy habit:
Remembering to take the garbage out….honestly, it’s nasty if it hangs around.

Favourite vacation spot:
The local beaches from my home town in southern Sydney. Nothing compares, but don’t talk to anyone from the Northern Beaches – they’ll just argue for the sake of arguing.