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Southcoast™ Health System has announced that family medicine physician Donald Derolf, MD, has joined Southcoast Physicians Group. He will join the practice of Michelle Boyle, MD, John J. Hand, MD, Richard V. Morgera, MD, and Wendy P. Regan, MD, and will see patients at Southcoast Family MediCenter, 672 Aquidneck Avenue in Middletown.

Dr. Derolf received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, R.I. He completed his internship and residency in family medicine at the Brown University/Memorial Hospital program in Pawtucket, R.I.

He has served as teaching fellow, instructor in family medicine and assistant professor in family medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University.

Dr. Derolf is accepting new patients. To make an appointment, call 401-847-0519.

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 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, comprehensive cancer care, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery, advanced imaging services and is the only provider of maternity services in the region. Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services. More information is available online at www.southcoast.org. Connect to Southcoast through social media at www.southcoast.org/connect/.

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