UPDATE – This Lab Tech Has Been on the Same Job for 50 Years and Isn't About To Slow Down

Pheloicsa “Phlo” Bostick has seen it all in half a century at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center – from the very big to the microscopic.

March 15, 2023

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PHELOICSA "PHLO" BOSTICK, A MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center who’s been on the job 50 years. “It's just great getting up in the morning knowing you're going to go do something you love to do. And, after you leave, you’ve accomplished something.”

Richard Nixon was president of the United States. A first-class stamp cost 8 cents. That same year – 1972 – Pheloicsa "Phlo" Bostick went to work as a medical laboratory technician at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne.

Let that sink in. Fifty years with the same employer, working in a lab where she's highly respected as a disciplined mentor who's devoted to patient care.

"It kind of slipped up on me," said Bostick, a Palm Bay resident. "I didn't aim at making 50 years and didn't even think about it. Even when I made 45, I just didn't think about it."

READ the full story in FLORIDA TODAY, CLICK HERE.

WATCH Phlo interviewed by Jerry Askin, WKMG News 6 in Orlando HERE.