FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 19, 2007
CONTACT: Joyce Brennan
Public Information Officer
Southcoast Health System
Phone: 508-961-5270
Pgr: 508-387-9605
brennanj@southcoast.org
www.southcoast.org/news/releases/
Southcoast Hospitals Group announces 2007 President’s Award winners
(Winners are from the following hometowns: Acushnet, Dartmouth, Dighton, New Bedford, Plymouth
and Wareham)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Each year Southcoast Hospitals Group encourages employees to
recognize the quality and dedication put forth by their co-workers. Southcoast’s President’s Award
for Excellence is awarded to 13 individuals who demonstrate an outstanding effort in delivering
quality customer service, having a positive attitude and working as team players.
The recipients were announced Tuesday, December 11, at the combined annual meetings of
Southcoast Health System and Southcoast Hospitals Group by Ronald B. Goodspeed, MD, MPH,
President of Southcoast Hospitals Group.
“The President's Award is special because the nominations come from co-workers, the people
who work side-by-side with the President's Award recipients to deliver the best possible patient care,”
Dr. Goodspeed said. “Winners exemplify accomplishing outstanding results while integrating the
Southcoast cultural elements: quality and caring, integrity and trust, and adaptability and flexibility
into the job they do and service they provide each day.”
This year 112 individuals were nominated and many of them received multiple
nominations. The President's Award committee, which is comprised of employees from all three
hospitals, had the difficult task of selecting the 13 individual winners. The criteria set forth by the
committee ask that each winner role model the Southcoast cultural elements and service priorities in
the daily course of their work.
Those Southcoast cultural elements are: Quality and Caring in the context of fiscal
constraints; Integrity, Openness and Trust across departments, levels and sites, and Adaptability and
Flexibility while honoring our legacy organizations. The Southcoast service priorities are Safety,
Compassion, Efficiency and Above & Beyond.
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2007 Southcoast President’s Award for Excellence winners:
(by hometown and in alphabetical order)
Acushnet (2)
Ana L. Oliveira
Nursing Assistant
Medical/Surgical
Tobey Hospital
Jo-Ann M. Richard
Hospice Volunteer Coordinator
Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care & Home Infusion Services
Dartmouth (2)
Vincent Medeiros
Blood Gas/Pulmonary Lab Diagnostic Specialist
Respiratory Care
Charlton Memorial Hospital
Susan F. Jenkins
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Southeast Rehabilitation Center
Charlton Memorial Hospital
Dighton (1)
Alicia Pimentel
Team Leader
Atwood 3
Charlton Memorial Hospital
New Bedford (6)
David Bibeau
Unit Assistant
Primary Care Unit (PCU)
St. Luke's Hospital
Maria F. DaCosta
Food Service Specialist
Food & Nutrition, Catering Services
St. Luke's Hospital
Ana Heard
Financial Resources Specialist
Patient Financial Services
St. Luke's Hospital
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New Bedford (continued)
Beatriz Mimoso
Team Leader
Southcoast Rehabilitation Services
Charlton Memorial Hospital
Caroline Oliver, RN
Family Centered Unit
St. Luke's Hospital
Grace H. Sullivan
Operations Team Leader
S.P.O.R.T. Team & Audiology
Mashpee Building, North Dartmouth
Southcoast Rehabilitation Services
Plymouth (1)
Katie Akley
Pharmacist
Pharmacy
Tobey Hospital
Wareham (1)
Angela M. Savary
Nursing Assistant
Medical/Surgical
Tobey Hospital
Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based
health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health
services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes Southcoast
Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St.
Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
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