Please help us welcome our new employee with Safety & Security Department Michelle Hicks the new Emergency Management Coordinator!

Michelle “Chelly” Hicks is joining us from Greensboro, NC where she has served the community in Emergency Services for 20 years. The foundation of her services were in Emergency Medical Services where she served as an EMT-Paramedic for 18 years. Throughout her career as a paramedic, she worked on the local hospital’s critical care transport team, which eventually led her into Emergency Management. She has over six years in Emergency Management as a Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator for a large hospital system, consisting of six hospitals and 176 physician practices. She has served on the NC State incident Management Team as a Logistics Section Chief and most recently in NC’s State Infection Prevention during the Covid 19 response.

Chelly enjoys spending time going on outdoor adventures with her husband, Robert, and three-year-old daughter, Emalyn. She is excited to join our team and looks forward to working with our community in becoming disaster resilient.

Michelle can be reached at Michelle_hicks@ykhc.org or via ext. 6590