Mercy Medical Center recognized more than 100 employees with 15 or more years of service during a May 15, 2025, ceremony honoring the hospital system’s support services division staff. The recognition dinner celebrated workers from environmental services, central sterile, food services, information desks and operator services, maintenance, patient transport, safety and security and supply chain departments.
Sister Helen Amos, RSM, Executive Chair of Mercy Health Services Board of Trustees, addressed ceremony guests and noted that many of the honored employees work behind the scenes or after hours. She described these long-serving staff members as representing “the backbone of the hospital system.”
The ceremony highlighted the contributions of support services personnel who have dedicated significant portions of their careers to maintaining hospital operations across multiple departments essential to patient care and facility management.
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To submit photos for a future Business Album, email [email protected].From left, Diane Christian, Hilary Gainey, Betty Singletary, Darlene Brown and Jacqueline Gilliam were recognized for their many years of service in Mercy’s information desks and operator services. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)From left, Tim Dorsey, Matthew Brooks, Valrie Alsol-Williams and Willard Brown were recognized for their many years of service in the supply chain and laundry division. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)From left, Johnie Carr with Barbara Ferguson and Kimberly Wynn were recognized for their many years of service in the food services department and Phil Beatson. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)Standing from left, Juanita Watkins, Yolanda Stewart, Jerome Taylor, Linda Jackson, Tracy Figueroa, Derick Burke, Johnie Carr, Lisa Batts, Latarsha Harper, Chantelle Johnson, David Jones Jr., Phil Beatson, Craig Sattler and Alexis Smith, business manager of support services. Seated, from left, Robert Taylor, Trieste Davis, Eunice Cooper, Jacqueline Cameron, Shaneka Gee, Robin Lewis and Willie Mae Turner were recognized for their many years of service in the environmental services division. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)Three employees were recognized for 50 years of employment with the hospital system. Among them was Richard Runkles. His achievement was recognized by, from left, Johnie Carr and Phil Beatson. As has become the custom at the hospital system for employees with at least 50 years of service, Mercy leaders gifted Runkles a customized Mercy jacket embroidered with his name, department and five decades of dedication. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)From left, Nick Breslin, William Parker, Tracey Penaloza, Nell Morris, Shruti Thomas and Earle Robinson were recognized for their many years of service in the hospital system’s central sterile division. (Photo by Jennifer McMenamin Photography, LLC)
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