Medical Workwear
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Clothing & Footwear
UNIFORMS & FOOTWEAR
CHEROKEE® UNIFORMS
The Cherokee® brand, which began as a footwear brand in 1973 is an icon of the American family lifestyle brand offering classic, casual comfort at affordable prices. Cherokee® medical apparel and footwear is the international brand used to be part of Cherokee® USA and arranged to split off to medical sector.
Cherokee® apparel has been known for comfort and fashion. This ready-to-wear heritage shapes the way we approach designing and manufacturing medical uniforms and accessories; it has helped our brand become the overwhelming favorite of healthcare workers everywhere. Cherokee® is dedicated to bringing fashion, comfort and quality — as well as a little more style and personality — to uniforms without sacrificing the functionality you need to do your job.
Outstanding Quality: We work with a nationwide panel of nurses who give us feedback on new products and industry trends. All of our products are tested to meet the highest quality standards before they are manufactured.
Cherokee® footwear is designed specifically for healthcare workers, combining the most advanced comfort technologies with great fashion to give you exceptional support and comfort through your longest shifts.
We’re celebrating 25 years of Cherokee Uniforms on July 27, 2020 – in the #YearoftheNurse
Cherokee’s special relationship with healthcare keeps growing and evolving, but its history goes way back!
It began in the early 80’s when white skirts and dresses were worn by healthcare professionals. At that time, Cherokee’s popular clogs called “Beeps” became the “must have” shoes for nurses. When white pants became the rage, Cherokee launched apparel in 1985 and quickly became the fashion leader - driven by the idea that medical scrubs could be both high performance and fashionable. The line drew from Cherokee apparel's rich ready-to-wear heritage for design inspiration. Cherokee grew rapidly to become the world’s biggest and best-loved medical apparel brand, expanding into multiple fabrications and product lines including iFlex, Infinity, Workwear, Luxe, Statement, Form, The Katie Duke Collection and Tooniforms, which features official Disney, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Marvel, Hello Kitty designs among others.
To the millions of healthcare professionals who have cared for and comforted patients in their Cherokee Uniforms or in the many other amazing brands we offer: as you continue to show us the heroic material you are made of in your work on the frontlines and throughout healthcare, it is our honor to outfit you in the very finest scrubs, that fit just who you are.
Their dedication, grace and compassion — the qualities you see in your workplace every day — shine through in the videos and photos you will see on this page throughout the year. Join us as we celebrate you, and all healthcare workers who contribute so much to our communities.
Videos
Alicia Britt - Pediatrics from day one (Above, left)
Graham Valley talks about his first day of being a nurse in the ER (Above, centre)
Emily Lloyd, RN shares her story of working at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Helping kids and their families get healthy. (Above, right)
INSPIRED COMFORT
The Cherokee® Uniforms family is enormously proud of the job healthcare workers perform and the compassion and competence with which they serve every day. To help us acknowledge and honor the profession, we created the Cherokee® Inspired Comfort Award. The award provides nurses, healthcare workers, their colleagues, and the public an opportunity to recognize exceptional service, sacrifice and innovation resulting in encouraging and inspirational accounts that we share with surrounding people. 2012 marked the 10th anniversary of the award. Since 2003 more than 10,000 nurses and other healthcare professionals have been nominated for the Cherokee® Inspired Comfort Award. Recipients of the Inspired Comfort Award are remarkable human beings who lead and love by example. Their stories stand as testaments to the many others who serve their fellow patients without recognition or celebration...
First Year Recipients
2003 - Mandy Larson, RN, a recipient of the 2003 Cherokee® Inspired Comfort Award, nearly lost her life as a Good Samaritan. Following her shift as a clinical nurse specialist in the neonatal intensive care unit at Medical University of South Carolina’s Children’s Hospital, Larson was visiting her husband at the hospital-based ambulance service when an accident occurred nearby. When they ran to help, the uninjured motorist aimed a handgun at Larson and fired five times. Bullets hit her in the hip, arm and shoulder. She lost two liters of blood and credited her husband, an EMT, with saving her life. A hospital flight nurse and a police officer died of gunshot wounds. Following numerous surgeries, she returned to work.
2003 - Mona Counts, PhD, CRNP, FNAP, FAANP, a recipient of the inaugural 2003 Cherokee® Inspired Comfort Award, was honored for taking out a second mortgage on her home to fund the creation of a clinic (the Mt. Morris Primary Care Clinic) to serve the general health care needs of the 5,000 Appalachian residents in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Nurse practitioners provide most of the health care services at the rural clinic under the direction of Counts, a nurse practitioner and the Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing at the Pennsylvania State University School of Nursing. In July 2004, Reader’s Digest profiled Counts as an “Everyday Hero”, which features “ordinary citizens who perform extraordinary acts at great personal risk or sacrifice.” In 2004, Counts was elected to serve a two-year term as President-Elect of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, from 2005 through 2007. Counts was featured in A Nurse I Am, a two-film project, produced in 2006 for nurses and nursing students, supported by Cherokee® Uniforms.
Mercy Ships
A floating hospital bringing volunteer medical teams and lifesaving care to those in desperate need, free of charge. Cherokee Uniforms on behalf of the Careismatic Brands, Los Angeles donates a portion of its proceeds to Mercy Ships, and provides in-kind donations of scrubs and other medical supplies.
