SWANSEA, Mass. — Southcoast Health honored 1,136 employees with significant service milestones, including 90 employees with 35 or more years of service, at its annual Employee Recognition Banquet Friday night at the Venus de Milo in Swansea.

“Your years of service and devotion have helped make Southcoast what it is today — a thriving healthcare system, striving to make the community healthy and keep the community healthy both within our walls and beyond,” said Keith Hovan, President & CEO of Southcoast Health, in an address to employees during the event.

Southcoast Health recognizes its employees service milestones at five-year intervals of continuous service based on date of hire. Employees from across the Southcoast Health system, including its three acute-care hospitals — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham — and the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), were honored at the event.

Southcoast Health employees with service milestones of 35 or more years include:

50 years of service

Fall River

• Nancy Botelho — Perioperative Services

45 years of service

East Freetown

• Debra Pacheco – Patient Services

East Providence

• Jean Jordan – Central Processing

Fairhaven

• Louise Quintin — Pharmacy
• Susan Pacheco – Centralized Scheduling

Fall River

• Kathleen Arruda – Perioperative Services
• Donna Desrosiers – Patient Services
• Anne Dzialo – Centralized Scheduling
• Ruth Farias – Patient Services
• Joan Medeiros – Care Coordination
• Sharon Owens – Rehab Services
• Mary Beth Sullivan – Human Resources

New Bedford

• Linda Pavao – Volunteer Services
• Cathy Rogers – Perioperative Services
• Marie Santos – Fiscal Services
• Gail Souza – Emergency Department

North Dartmouth

• Nancy Pedro – Laboratory

Somerset

• Virginia Creamer – Interpreter Services

Taunton

• Debra Gabriel — Laboratory

Tiverton

• Eileen Cook — Laboratory

Westport

• Denise Messier – Perioperative Services

40 years of service

Acushnet

• Karen Blier – Perioperative Services
• Paul Lagasse – Engineering and Maintenance

East Freetown

• Joann Ashley — VNA Patient Services
• Deborah Souza — Laboratory

Fall River

• Deborah Allard – Health Information Management
• Jane Bernier – Engineering and Maintenance
• Jeanne Clement — Med/Treatment Center
• Carol Conroy – Patient Services
• Marguerite Hayes – Imaging Services
• Robert Hayes – Materials Management
• Terance Mooney – Environmental Services
• Joanne Pearson — Patient Services
• Vanessa Wicherski — Laboratory

Marion

• Jaime Mourao – Engineering and Maintenance

New Bedford

• Cheryl Duarte — Laboratory
• Phyllis Figueiredo – Patient Services
• Linda Grenier — Pharmacy
• Deborah Resendes – Respiratory Therapy
• Bruce Vasconcellos – Imaging Services

North Dartmouth

• Rosemarie Trudelle – Perioperative Services
• Deborah Wulff – Centralized Scheduling

South Dartmouth

• Clara Giannelli – Fiscal Services
• Susan Meinholt — Laboratory

Swansea

• Stephen Boudreau — Materials Management
• Michael Richard — Laboratory

Tiverton

• Diane Watts — Laboratory

Wareham

• Joann Finn – Rehab Services
• Teresa Todd — Admitting

35 years of service

Acushnet

• Carole Dufrane – Professional Development
• Kathleen Mello – Fiscal Services
• Linda Rose – Patient Services

Assonet

• Helena Raposo – Environmental Services

Bristol

• Sandra Harper – Patient Services

Buzzards Bay

• Kathleen Wilkins – Laboratory

Dighton

• Ann Torres – Care Coordination

East Freetown

• Catherine Rego – Oncology

Fairhaven

• Roberta Couto – Care Coordination
• Christine Gonet – Patient Services
• Jeffrey Smith – Management Information Services
• Barbara Tyson – Food and Nutrition

Fall River

• Joyce Botelho – Quality Department
• Lurdes Hilario – Perioperative Services
• Lynne Maynard – Care Coordination
• Susan Miller – Perioperative Services
• Robert Silvia – Food and Nutrition
• Karen Trainor – Communications

Middletown

• Diana Wyres-Springer – Perioperative Services

New Bedford

• Joyce Beauregard – Patient Services
• Sandra Benevides – Imaging Services
• Bonnie Bill – Patient Services
• Karen Ferreira – Food and Nutrition
• Judith Lewis – Fiscal Services
• Mary Provencher – Patient Services
• Donna Rogers – Patient Services

North Dartmouth

• Wendy Henry – Patient Services
• Cathleen Medeiros – Care Coordination
• Catherine Michael – Rehab Services
• Joanne Raimo – Central Authorization
• David Sprague – Environmental Services

Portsmouth

• Carolyn Spaulding – Patient Services

Rochester

• Chris Sharples – Engineering and Maintenance

Somerset

• Claudette Leblanc – Patient Services
• Susan Lecomte – Admitting
• Michelle Levesque – Imaging Services

South Dartmouth

• Robert Lopes – Central Processing
• Anna Pereira – Fiscal Services

Swansea

• Gayle Hodosh – Pharmacy

Taunton

• Lesley O’Donnell – Patient Services

Wareham

• Josephine Roche – Health Information Management

Wesport

• Lisa Pineault – Imaging Services
• Debra Reis – Patient Services
• Kelly Roderick – Hospitalists