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12/22/2005 - Tina Luker Wins Pat Hyche Nursing Award
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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
Tina Luker WINS NURSING Award
Greenville, AL—Tina Luker, RN, has been awarded the Pat Hyche Nursing Award by Alacare Home Health & Hospice.
“The Pat Hyche Nursing Award was created to recognize the Alacare nurse who demonstrated extraordinary professionalism, compassion, and service to patients and colleagues during the previous year,” said John Beard, JD, MBA, President of Alacare Home Health & Hospice. “Tina certainly fits that description.”
The recipient of the Pat Hyche Nursing Award recipient must have exceeded the demands of his/her position and contributed extra time, energy and resources to improving life and providing service to the patients of Alacare Home Health & Hospice.
Ms. Luker, Branch Director of Alacare in Greenville, is described as an upbeat team player with a ready smile who is always willing to roll up her sleeves and share in the hard work. In nominating her for this award, it was obvious that her peers and co-workers hold her in high regard. Even though she is in a management position, she regularly helps out by making patient visits. Patients and their families will sometimes call her personally to ask care questions, and they follow her advice. Floyce Salter, RN, who works with Luker in Alacare’s Greenville branch said, “Tina makes it a point to know all she can about each patient in the branch.” In just one example of this Luker’s dedication to patients, at Thanksgiving she picked pecans from her own tree and delivered them personally to a wheelchair-bound patient who needed them to complete Thanksgiving dinner. Her personal goal is to make sure every patient’s needs are met—physically and emotionally.
“Tina is an excellent example of the true meaning of our Agency’s philosophy of care,” Beard added.
Alacare President Beard, Luker, and Alacare Chief Financial Officer, Gene Sykes.
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.
