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8/28/2006 - Alacare Announces New Branches in Sheffield and Russellville
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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
Alacare Announces New Branches in Sheffield and Russellville
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Ashley Kennamer, RN
lorence, AL—Alacare Home Health & Hospice has opened new branches in Sheffield and Russellville, Alabama. The offices are Alacare’s twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth in the state. In addition, Alacare’s existing Florence Hospice office is now a full-service provider of home health as well as hospice care.Ashley Kennamer, RN, is the Branch Director supervising the staff at the new Sheffield office. “Our team of experienced healthcare professionals will be providing home health and hospice services to the people of Lauderdale, Colbert and Franklin Counties,” Kennamer said. “We’re excited to be a part of the Alacare family.” Branch Directors for the Florence and Russellville offices are Cindy Melton, RN, and Nita Hardy, RN, respectively.
“Alacare has expanded not only the geographical area it serves but the scope of services we offer,” says Mark Cook, RN, MBA, the agency’s Chief Operating Officer. “We are pleased that we can now offer Alacare’s high quality of care to the people in this part of the state.”
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.
