FLH promotes Dorothy Ricks to Nutritional Services Director

Dorothy Ricks has been promoted to Nutritional Services Director at Finger Lakes Health for all the acute and long term care facilities.

Ricks has been the Manager of Nutritional Services at Huntington Living Center for the last 28 years and has been serving in the capacity of interim Director since February 2019. Before her career path began, Ricks graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Alfred State College. She then received a Bachelor’s Degree from SUNY College of Fredonia, and completed training at the Cornell Leadership Program.

Recently, Ricks was honored with the 2019 Premier Illuminating Excellence Award. Recognized nationally, this award recognizes 10 finalists for their dedication and work ethic to great food service. Criteria for the honor includes patient/resident/student satisfaction scores, and professional and community activities. Winners were named in the categories of Acute Care, Continuum Care, Education, Nutrition, and Commercial.

Her tenure at the health system has been responsible for many improvements to the organization including the development of a mentorship training program to assist staff, and high quality leadership and care brought to coordinating food and nutrition services at multiple sites throughout Finger Lakes Health.