Meet the Team
Management
Matt Laming, President
Matt Laming is the owner and president of GLHCU. Matt spends most of his time working on growing the company and achieving our vision of providing the highest quality care to our clients. His main focus is providing leadership and a "north star" for the team to follow. He often sees unique opportunities or solutions to problems that the team can act on in order to expand our services. In his free time, Matt enjoys fishing (both Salmon and Lake) and relaxing at his cottage in Gladwin with his wife and family.
Elizabeth Laming, Director of Operations
Elizabeth is the Director of Operations of the company. Her main focus is taking the president's ideas and making them into policies and procedures the rest of the team can act on. Elizabeth also does a lot of community outreach and can be seen traveling around the state to attend events and creating new connections. Through this she makes it so GLHCU can offer trusted partners and resources for whatever a clients asks. In her free time she loves spending time with her grandchildren and reading books at the cottage.
Matthew Laming, Operations Manager
Matthew Laming is our operations manager. His main focus is to make sure our different sites are operating under GLHCU policy and procedure. Matthew is committed to seeing GLHCU grow in it's different locations via various managerial and marketing efforts. He is often going to the various GLHCU locations to assist in getting them operational or maintain their current growth. In his free time, Matthew loves to play video games with his closest friends, paint miniatures for wargames/DnD, and play with his cat (Smokey).
Loretta Ferris, Office Manager
Loretta is our office manager of our Midland location and oversees the daily operations. She often covers a wide variety of roles as a manager and helps oversee everything from scheduling to human resources. Her main focus is to make sure our clients are getting the care they deserve and act on feed back from reviews. Loretta is also in charge of our veteran's association contract and has an unrivaled passion for helping our veterans. In her free time, Loretta is either with her kids at home, canning, or volunteering. She's the director of the Midland Toys for Tots.
Midland Office
Megan Cassiday, Scheduling
Megan is one of our schedulers. She makes sure our clients receive caregivers who are the right fit for them while also balancing the desires of our caregivers. Scheduling requires consideration of multiple factors and Megan (along with the rest of scheduling) do an excellent job filling those schedules with the best fit possible. She also works side by side with HR to see how new hires will fit into our current clients needs. In her free time Megan enjoys spending time with her cats at home, watching movies and spending time with close friends.
Katonha Conley, Human Resources
Katonha is apart of our human resources team. Her main focus is making sure our caregivers are top-notch and often handles their reviews/compliance. Katonha also interviews, reference checks and onboards caregivers working off the rest of the HR team to make sure things flow smoothly in the hiring process. In her free time, Katonha likes to garden and spend time helping others in any way she can.
Melinda Sanchez, Human Resources
Melinda is apart of our Human Resources Team. She often focuses on the recruitment side, attending many of the job fairs through out our service area. Melinda also helps filter through job applicants to make sure we only hire the best options for our clients. Furthermore, Melinda onboards our caregivers and walks them through our policy & procedures to make sure they know what is expected of them. She moved here from California in 2016 with her husband Brian. They have 6 grown children and 24 grandchildren. In her free time, Melinda loves fishing and enjoying the weather changes here in beautiful Michigan.
Michelle Kostoff, Scheduling
Michelle is one of our schedulers. While working with the scheduling team she looks at multiple factors to fill schedules with the best fit possible. Often she is communicating with our caregivers or families to get feedback on how shifts are going and if a change needs to be made. In her free time, Michelle likes to travel, go to concerts and spend time with her family and friends. She also has a lovely dog named Tater Tot.
Northern Offices
Mary Engle, Human Resources
Mary is in charge of Human Resources for our Northern Offices. She handles the recruitment, hiring and disciplinary actions of our northern caregivers. Mary not only makes sure our caregivers are up to our expectations but communicates their needs to the scheduling department. She often works as an inbetween to make sure communication flows smoothly between our northern caregivers and the main office. Mary loves to spend time enjoying the great outdoors whether it's playing golf, hunting, fishing or traveling with her husband, Carl, and their fur-baby, Missy. When the weather does not permit outdoor fun, Mary enjoys working on her musical skills, crafting and volunteering for non-profits.