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May 11, 2009
Renfrew Victoria Hospital celebrates commitment with worklife awards
Those honoured recently for their many years of dedicated service at Renfrew Victoria Hospital included, front row, 25-year employee Sharon Welsh, 30-year employee Kevin Gillan, and 35-year employee Gladys Curry; back row, Dr. Ronald Lavigne, who has been providing medical care at RVH for 40 years, 30-year employee Marie Smith, 25-year employee Dianne Fortier, and 35-year employee Pat Colterman 
Recent retirees were among the stars at Renfrew Victoria Hospital’s “Night At The Oscars” to celebrate worklife achievements. Those honoured included, front row, Brenda Collins and Bernadette Bailey, and back row, Donna Keon and Dianne Fortier. There were nearly 70 stars to be honoured when Renfrew Victoria Hospital hosted “A Night At The Oscars” to celebrate worklife accomplishments last week (May 7).
The special evening included a red-carpeted entrance, portraits of the stars, miniature Oscar statues for them to keep, and the sharing of many warm memories and words of encouragement.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity to say thanks,” said RVH CEO Randy Penney.
He noted that the local hospital is unique in the province for the broad range of programs and services delivered by such a small, community facility.
“It’s only possible because of the hard work of the staff, our physicians, our board, our foundation and the support of our community,” Penney concluded.
He noted that the corporation has experienced tremendous growth over the 40-year period covered by the 2009 worklife awards. For the last 20 of those years, the corporation has successfully managed a balanced corporate budget that has now grown to $34 million. The range of services and the number of people who receive care through hospital programs has grown exponentially. For example, in 1993 the RVH dialysis program provided 1,000 treatments. Last year, it provided 16,000 treatments county-wide.
Penney also pointed out that those receiving RVH “Oscars” this year had made a total commitment of more than 2,000 years of service to the hospital, which represents more than four million hours of work.
Those honoured at the event included Dr. Ron Lavigne who is celebrating his 40th year as an RVH physician, and 35-year recipients Pat Colterman, Gladys Curry and Dr. Bruce Strader.
Those celebrating in the other worklife award categories included:
- 30 years: Kevin Gillan and Marie Smith
- 25 years: Dianne Fortier and Sharon Welsh
- 20 years: Randy Briscoe, Brenda Calow, Valerie Hisko, Mavis Johnston, Nancy Kelly-Moore, Catherine Robertson, Tammy Stoppa and Debbie Tiernay
- 15 years: Linda Carroll, Susan Guyea, Beverley Kunopaskie, Jim Lemenchick and Dr. Cathy MacDonald
- 10 years: Sandra Beimers, Janice Belaire, Arlene Deloughery, Shirley Hampel, Cathy Meilleur, Catherine O’Neil, Jennifer Pappin, Annie Parker, Roberta Prahl, Ned Rafuse, Donna Resmer, Brad Sammon and Terri-Lynn Sukkel
- Five years: Roger Brisco, Lana Bulmer, Cheryl Cameron, Marion Carr, Debbie Coules, Carlene Dellaire, Kelly Eady, Lorna Finner, Shaun Hammond, Janet Jones, Crystal Kelly-Legris, Dave Lesaux, Kelly MacRae, Julie Mayotte, Laura Mick, Harvey Murray, Diana O’Ryan, Erin Rennick, Sandra Robinson, Sharon Tokarchuk, Giselle Townsend, Cindy Verch, Bill Welsh, Susan Winters and Kelly Zieman.
Retirees were also honoured. They include Bernadette Bailey, Brenda Collins, Dianne Fortier, Donna Keon, Jim Legree, Dawna Minns, Marilyn Riopelle and Anna Burwell-McCallum.
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(For more information, contact RVH CEO Randy Penney, 613-432-4851, ext. 260.)
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