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12/31/2006 - Rebecca Shivers Named Alacare 2006 Volunteer of the Year
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Contact: Richard Nieves
Alacare Home Health & Hospice
4752 Highway 280 East
Birmingham, AL 35242
Phone: 205.981.8000 or 800.852.4724
Fax : 205.981.8743
E-mail : Richard.Nieves@alacare.com
Rebecca Shivers Named Alacare Volunteer of the Year
Alexander City, AL— Rebecca Shivers has been named Volunteer of the Year by Alacare Home Health & Hospice. Shivers has been a volunteer with the organization for eighteen months and volunteered 150 hours of her time in 2006 alone.
“The Volunteer of the Year Award was created to recognize the Alacare Home Health & Hospice volunteer who truly goes to extraordinary lengths to brighten the lives of our patients,” said Gary Corbin, RN, Alacare’s Director of Patient Care Services. “All volunteers are exceptional, but Rebecca is someone who stands out even among a group of outstanding individuals.”
Some of her outstanding services include participating in “Tuck-in Calls” to patients on Thursday evenings to determine their needs prior to the weekend, making holiday crafts for patients and helping to deliver them, playing an important part in the Alacare Alexander City Branch’s memorial service and helping maintain the group’s memorial garden that honors hospice patients and their families.
Shivers was previously a volunteer in the Russell Medical Center’s Hospice program. “After that program closed, she was instrumental not only in keeping the volunteer group together, but encouraging them all to become Alacare volunteers,” Corbin added. “Thanks in large part to her efforts, the ‘Friends of Hospice’ group has been a shining light of volunteerism in the Alexander City area.”
About Alacare
Founded by Charles D. Beard, Jr., the Beard family is proud that Alacare Home Health & Hospice is Alabama's oldest and largest family-owned, Medicare-certified home health agency. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alacare is dedicated to providing patients the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitative, palliative and hospice care available in the most cost-effective environment—the patient's own home.
Since 1970, Alacare has provided patients with quality home healthcare. Services provided include diabetes education, enterostomal therapy, home care aides, home medical equipment, hospice/palliative care, infusion therapy, medical nutrition therapy, medical social services, mental health nursing, occupational therapy, pain management, physical therapy, skilled nursing, and speech/language pathology.
For more information, visit the Company's corporate Web site: www.alacare.com.
