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12/28/2005 - Sandra Davis Named Alacare 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
Sandra Davis Named Alacare Volunteer of the Year
Birmingham, AL— McCalla resident Sandra Davis has been named Volunteer of the Year by Alacare Home Health & Hospice. Davis has been a volunteer with the organization since 2003.
“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 Mary Rose Gray, RN, Alacare’s Hospice Administrator. “All volunteers are exceptional, but Sandra is someone who stands out even among a group of outstanding individuals.”
Davis began volunteering with Alacare’s hospice program because she saw the way hospice had helped members of her own family. She served one hospice patient and his family for more than two years, and in all that time she rarely missed a visit. She devoted more than 150 hours of her time and traveled more than 2500 miles in serving that patient. Nurses and other hospice staff considered her an important member of the hospice team. “The patient died a couple of months ago,” Gray added, “but Sandra still visits with his wife, providing bereavement care.”
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Hospice Administrator Gray, Davis and Alacare President John G. Beard, JD, MBA
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, Montgomery, Morgan, Monroe, 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.
