| For Immediate Release | Contact: Joyce Faria Brennan |
| June 30, 2008 | 508-961-5270 |
| brennanj@southcoast.org | |
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WAREHAM, Mass. — The physician practice of Wareham Medical Associates has joined Southcoast Physician Services, part of Southcoast Health System. Wareham Medical Associates includes the internal medicine practices of Thomas Gleason, MD, John Howard, MD, and Thomas Spiro, PAC, located at 194 Main Street in Wareham.
The practice will now operate as part of Southcoast Health System, which in addition to its three community hospitals includes physician practices, home health care and hospice, a wellness center and numerous outpatient medical services.
Southcoast Physician Services also includes Borden Medical Associates; Truesdale Medical Specialties Associates and Hanover Internal Medicine Associates in Fall River; the practice of Randy Caplan, DO, in Wareham; the practice of Carlos A. Correia, MD, in Fall River; Linden Tree Family Health in Portsmouth, R.I.; Southcoast Neurosurgery in Fall River and Dartmouth, and Wareham Surgical Associates in Wareham.
For more information on Wareham Medical Associates, or to make an appointment, call 508-295-4450.
Additional physician practices that are part of Southcoast Health System include Southcoast Primary Care, a group of internal medicine, family practice and pediatric practices in Dartmouth, Mattapoisett, New Bedford and Wareham.
To find a Southcoast physician, log onto Southcoast's Physician Finder at www.southcoast.org/doctors/ or call 1-800-497-1727.
About Southcoast
Southcoast Health System 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 the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty and heart rhythm services, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery and advanced imaging services. Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services.
More information is available onlinwww.southcoast.org.
Media Contact
Joyce Faria Brennan
Public Information Officer
Phone: 508-961-5270
Pager: 508-387-9605
Fax: 508-961-5876
brennanj@southcoast.org
