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1/30/2006 - Penny Shadinger Named Top Sales Professional
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Richard Nieves or Nancy Kucik
Alacare Home Health & Hospice
4752 Highway 280 East
Birmingham, AL 35242
Phone: 205.981.8000 or 800.852.4724
Fax : 205.981.8743
Richard.Nieves@alacare.com
Penny Shadinger Receives National Recognition as Top Sales Professional
Albertville, Alabama—National home health industry publication …home health line has named Penny Shadinger, RN, of Albertville the Home Health Star Liaison. The award is given to the top sales or marketing professional of the year. Shadinger works in sales at Alacare Home Health & Hospice.
Shadinger did not set out to work in sales. She first spent 28 years as a school nurse in the Albertville area. Ready to try something different and not yet ready to retire, Shadinger looked for a new way to apply her nursing background. Selling home health and hospice services seemed to be a perfect career change.
“Penny didn’t have any sales or marketing experience when she applied for this job,” says Christy McKone, Alacare’s Director of Sales. “We were so impressed with her attitude, her knowledge and her communication skills, though, that we decided to give her an opportunity. She took that opportunity and ran with it!”
Run with it she did. Shadinger was assigned a territory that had previously proved a sales challenge, but she was able to turn that around. In just one year, admissions in her territory increased 57%.
For winning the Home Health Star Liaison award, Shadinger will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the home care marketing conference, “Power Home Health Referrals 2006,” in Las Vegas February 22 -24. She will also be a featured speaker at this conference, sharing her tips for sales success.
“Because her approach is so genuine, Penny is well respected by her peers, the Alacare management, the community, and the physicians and other referral sources with whom she deals,” says McKone. “Other sales professionals at the conference will be able to learn a lot from her.”
About Alacare
Alacare Home Health & Hospice is Alabama's oldest and largest privately 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 efficient environment—the patient's own home. Since 1970, Alacare has provided patients with quality home healthcare.
Medicare’s new Home Health Care data reflect that Alacare’s overall patient-care outcomes in 11 essential areas are among the best when compared to both National and Alabama averages. Interested persons can obtain these data online at http://cms.hhs.gov/quality/hhqi/ or by calling 1-800-MEDICARE.
Services provided include: diabetes education, enterostomal therapy, homecare 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.
Alacare’s service area now includes the following counties: Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Cullman, Dale, Dallas, DeKalb, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Geneva, Greene, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Lowndes, Macon, Madison, Marengo, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Randolph, Russell, Shelby, St. Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Wilcox, and Winston.
For more information, visit the Company's corporate Web site: www.alacare.com.
