Each year CRH recognizes our employees who have earned service awards. This year 275 workforce members received service awards, including 253 staff members and 22 providers! Their lengths of service range from five years to 45 years. In addition to specially recognizing our service award recipients, we want to thank our entire workforce for their commitment and dedication to CRH, our patients, and community.
Three staff members and one provider received awards for 40 years of service or more. Senior accountant Bryan Busselberg was one of the 40-year recipients.
When Bryan Busselberg joined CRH in 1984, there were eight people in the Accounting department. Today, there are 21 (now called Financial Services). He started as an assistant accounting manager and assumed his current role as senior accountant in 2010. Other roles he has held include accounting manager and director of affiliate finance. “I’ve had different titles and responsibilities. “The hospital was quite different when I started, and the structure of the accounting and finance area was different,” he said.
As a senior accountant, Bryan helps with the monthly financial close for the Hospital, CRHP practices, Southeastern Indiana Health Management, Inc., and Medical Holdings. He also coordinates tax return preparation and other reports. “I enjoy the many aspects of accounting and making that happen each month – putting out a product,” he said. “I like the start-to-finish ability to work on financials and do the entries and make the changes necessary to accomplish that.” In addition to enjoying the work he does, Bryan also likes the people he’s worked with over the years. “There are a lot of good people who work for the hospital and our health system. I’ve enjoyed working with them,” he said.
Throughout his career, Bryan has worked at many locations, including the Tech Center, the Mental Health unit, Information Services, the former CRHP office building on Sandcrest Boulevard, and now, like many of his department coworkers, remotely. He has witnessed many organizational changes, including the name changes from Bartholomew County Hospital to Columbus Regional Hospital and then Columbus Regional Health, as well as the building project in 1992 and the expansion of services we provide. “We went through that project, and that was kind of exciting. Old areas were torn down, and new areas were built. The size of the hospital has grown – both in terms of the physical facility and in what we do,” he said. As we established affiliations with the physician practices (the PPO and then CRHP) and other entities, Bryan set up their accounting processes. “I was involved in the start-up of all of those and through the years have somewhat become the person who gets asked when some historical information is needed about the affiliate entities,” he said.
Outside of work, Bryan is involved in his church. He also enjoys learning about history and is part of the Civil War book club at the library. He and his wife, Kathy, have been happily married for 42 years. They have six children and 14 grandchildren.
Thank you for your 40 years of service to CRH and our community, Bryan! We are grateful you are part of the CRH family!