Happy Employee Appreciation Day

Friday, March 6 is national Employee Appreciation Day. We want to thank you for all you do to embody our values and to elevate the patient, safety, and team experiences at Cook Children’s! We appreciate the effort, dedication and contributions you make every day in service of our Promise.

Here’s a special appreciation message from Amy Knight, Chief Administrative Officer. No matter where you are in the System, we are ONE Cook Children’s – each of us exemplifying gold medal teamwork!  

At Cook Children’s, we believe in the power of recognition to lift us up and help us to feel seen, heard, respected, and valued. We encourage you to mark your calendars for tomorrow March 6 to recognize your colleagues and leaders who make a difference in your work each day and share some appreciation with them. Let’s spread a positive wave of appreciation across the System!           

Share our Cook Children’s Values

• Message of appreciation: Extend thanks, warm wishes and gratitude to your team, colleagues and leaders
• Get together: schedule some time to connect during rounding, huddles, or a virtual coffee break
• Get creative on a token of appreciation or an activity for the team: healthy snacks or a favorite team treat, dress up day, bulletin board to share appreciation notes

Team Photos

We love to see your team photos! Email your team photos to teamexperience@cookchildrens.org now through March 10. Those will be collected and shared on Connect Newsroom and the Team Experience site the following week.

Stay Connected

Please make plans to participate in our employee events throughout 2026 -- to celebrate each other and the amazing teamwork of the more than 10,500 people who serve our Pinky Promise every day across Cook Children’s, from the medical centers in Fort Worth and Prosper to the neighborhood clinics, home health services, health plan and beyond!

Upcoming events include:

• Service awards dinner in April
• Employee appreciation month in May: campus cookouts & Texas Rangers games
• Well-being month and Beat the Heat Treat in August
• Discounted tickets to the Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars this fall
• Halloween Hoopla in October
• Family day at Six Flags in November
• Jingle Bell Mingle in December

Visit the Team Experience site to learn more about all the upcoming events planned for 2026! On the main page is the 2026 Events Calendar (scroll down to the bottom). This calendar includes national holidays, professional recognition days/weeks, system employee events & more. Be sure to bookmark the page as we’ll continue to update the calendar as more 2026 event dates are finalized.

Happy Employee Appreciation Day!