SWANSEA, Mass. – Southcoast Health honored 964 employees with significant service milestones, including 109 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 A. 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 healthcare system, including its three hospitals — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, and Tobey Hospital in Wareham, were honored at the event.

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

50 years of service
Acushnet

• Dianne Abram, Imaging Services

45 years of service
Acushnet

• Deborah Fauteux, Patient Services

Dartmouth

• Alice Kopaczewski, Laboratory
• Anne Porter, Patient Services
• Diane Sylvia, Laboratory
• Valerie Tjersland, Imaging Services
• Joan Whitlow, Laboratory

Fall River

• Mary Librera, Perioperative Services

Middleboro

• Deborah Harlow, Environmental Services

New Bedford

• Karen Ashley, Patient Services
• Rosa Houtman ,Rehab Services
• Filomena Melo, Food & Nutrition
• Stephanie Pina, E.K.G.

Portsmouth, R.I.

• Maureen Lema, Perioperative Services

Rochester

• Manuel Correia, Maintenance

Swansea

• Deborah Guimond, Patient Services

Tiverton, R.I.

• Joyce Cordeiro, Patient Services
• Denise Mercier, Patient Access

Wareham

• Fernanda Halpen, Perioperative Services

Westport

• Kathleen Bettencourt, Rehab Services
• Pamela Ras, Patient Services

40 years of service
Acushnet

• Stephen Costa, Clinical Engineering
• Elizabeth McKnight, Cardiac Cath Services

Adamsville, R.I.

• Simone Santerre, Cardiac Cath Services

Assonet

• Jacqueline Garell, Administration

Dartmouth

• Steven Bates, Respiratory Therapy
• Jacqueline Gonzales, Health Information Management
• Donna Jannis, Care Coordination
• Louise LeComte, Medical Staff Services
• Susan Letourneau, Perioperative Services
• Vincent Medeiros, Respiratory Therapy

Fall River

• Harriet Berube, Patient Services
• Patricia Kuklewicz, Patient Services
• Susan McCarthy, Communications
• Jacqueline Silvia, Rehab Services
• Jacqueline Smith, Rehab Nursing Services

Freetown

• Eileen D’Oliveira, Laboratory

Mattapoisett

• Kim Anthony, Laboratory

New Bedford

• Arthur Boudreau, Perioperative  Services
• Anna Bourque, Management Information Services
• Donna Boutin, Management Information Systems
• Steven Brennan, Purchasing
• Marie Monteiro            , Patient Services
• Cheryl Oliveira, Human Resources
• Cynthia Perry, Physician Case & Quality Review
• Diane Robinson, Patient  Services

Somerset

• Elizabeth Sardinha, Admitting
• Manuel Soares, Food & Nutrition

Swansea

• Christine Belyea, Rehab Services
• Susan Lister, Laboratory
• Michael Zolnierz, Pharmacy

Tiverton, R.I.

• Patricia Little, Cardiac Surgery
• Ricky Lotz, Perioperative Services
• Brian Rousseau, Pharmacy
• John Simmons, Perioperative Services

Wareham

• Ruth Atkinson, Patient Services
• Paula Billard, Imaging Services
• Alice Canham, Patient Services

Westport

• Maria Goncalo, Environmental Services

35 years of service
Acushnet

• Jacqueline Bragga, Patient Services
• Carol Levalley, Central Processing
• Dawn Richards, Patient Services

Barrington, R.I.

• Nancy Fitzgerald, Pharmacy

Bourne

• Eileen Gove, Patient Services

Dartmouth

• Nancy Best, Care Coordination
• Susan Dube, Respiratory Services
• Susan Dubreuil, Home Care Services
• Jacqueline Fernandes, Laboratory
• Susan Kirby, Patient Services
• Laurel Owen, Laboratory

Fairhaven

• Nora King, Patient Services

Fall River

• Patricia Bell, Patient  Services
• David Carvalho, Central Processing
• Dawn Furtado, Admitting
• Robin Hodkinson, Support  Services
• Kim Lyne, Perioperative Services
• Colleen McCarthy, Perioperative Services
• Evelyn Petit, Patient Services
• Cynthia Prayzner, Health Information Management
• Sharon Solomon, Rehab Services

Freetown

• Christine Gregoire, Patient Services

Marion

• Robin Zora, Diabetes Program

Mattapoisett

• Gertrude Caldwell, Care Coordination
• Marcia Dupont, Perioperative Services
• Diane Knight, Laboratory
• Carol Lawrence, Patient Services
• Valerie Murolo, SPN Care Coordination

New Bedford

• Janice Breault, Patient Services
• Ann Cardaci, Laboratory
• Maureen Galavotti, Food & Nutrition
• Pamela Harris, Patient Services
• Paul Lemaire, Imaging Services
• Nancy Tremblay, Laboratory

Raynham

• Jeanne Allard, Health Information Management

Rehoboth

• Douglas Mitchell, Food & Nutrition

Somerset

• Susan Coute, Perioperative Services
• John Dionne, Patient Services
• Lorraine Lachapelle, Patient Services

Swansea

• Overjean Barbosa, Laboratory
• Anne Pavao, Patient Services

Tiverton, R.I.

• Raymond Grenier, Laboratory
• Joseph Marcucci, Central Processing
• Diane Smith, Echocardiology
• O. William Tavares, Patient Services

Wareham

• Edwin Ross, Environmental Services
• John Sullivan, Imaging Services

Westport

• Elizabeth Conley, Perioperative Services
• Sharon Duclos, Rehab Services

Westport

• David Rebello, Maintenance