Serendipity
Date: July 28, 2008

Whether you call it planetary alignment, serendipity or divine intervention, there are, on occasion, circumstances when details come together in perfect harmony. The right person is at the right place at the right time, and the result is an opportunity to bless and to be blessed.

When Floyd’s Professional Recruitment and Retention team began talking with me about assuming the practice at Floyd Primary Care practice in Cedartown, there could not have been a better person to sell me on Floyd and Northwest Georgia than Brandi Littlejohn.

I have a son with autism spectrum disorder and a daughter with a behavioral disorder. I was looking to relocate my family from South Georgia to a place where there are more resources available for my children.

All the planning in the world couldn’t have connected me with a more suitable recruiter. Brandi has a brother with autism, and she has taken a lead in the community in linking families with special needs children to each other and to the resources they need. She understood my needs and had the connections I needed to make our move as smooth as possible.

Brandi has been an incredible resource to me and my family during my transition to working for Floyd. She has just been phenomenal. She pointed out different places to go and helped us find services we needed. She gave me names of babysitters who had experience in working with autistic children, and she even added herself to the list of babysitters, which is kind of cool. She didn’t have to do that.
She has been an invaluable source of information regarding everything from school contacts for my children to dry cleaning. She has always had an answer to any question I have had, and she has been very compassionate and sensitive to my family's needs.

“I learned about Brandi’s efforts when Dr. Crawley nominated Brandi for a Floyd Hero. What Dr. Crawley didn’t know is that Brandi is a Floyd Hero; she was given the award last year for her responsiveness, creativity and her ability to take the roughest of brainstorming ides and turn them into top quality results,” said James Coughlin, director of Professional Recruitment and Retention. “But, she’s also a hero in our department and to her family.”

Brandi was instrumental in customizing our hospital tours with Little Green to accommodate special needs children, James said. And, she was instrumental in keeping the PRR department on track with meeting our goals while I was serving as interim administrator for our EMS department. At home, she has made many personal sacrifices to help her parents care for her brother and her grandparents, James said.

“Just as Dr. Crawley said in her Hero nomination for Brandi, ‘Brandi went and has continued to go what I think is well beyond what she needed to do.”

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