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8/1/2005 - Krystan Sivley Named Volunteer of the Month
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 E-mail: Richard.Nieves@alacare.com Krystan Sivley Named Alacare Volunteer of the Month Birmingham, AL – In an ongoing effort to acknowledge and show appreciation to its diverse, dedicated group of volunteers, Alacare Home Health and Hospice recently created a Volunteer of the Month title to honor the volunteer with the most hours of service. Alacare’s award-winning volunteer program serves an integral role in the company’s continual commitment to the highest quality service to its patients. With enough committed, caring volunteers, Alacare is able to extend its reach across the state, within homes in small towns and large, on weekdays, holidays, nights and weekends. Krystan Sivley has been honored with the Alacare “Volunteer of the Month” award. A student at Springville High School, 15-year-old Krystan began volunteering at the beginning of June. Assisting with administrative work was a family affair for Krystan, whose mother Pamela Decker is a valued administrative assistant for the company’s Dewberry Building corporate headquarters. Giving 51.5 hours of volunteer time, Krystan displayed her outstanding commitment to volunteering when she came to work and continued to make phone calls after having jaw surgery, completing nearly 60 calls during the month, including calling families of former patients to include them in a memorial service to honor their family members. Valeri Cowart, who serves as the Hospice Volunteer Coordinator for the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Jasper, Cullman, Decatur, and Huntsville branches, designated Krystan as an exceptional worker. Says Cowart, “I am always open to ideas about ways our community can assist our patients.” Cowart’s goals to expand the volunteer program’s reach not only through the number and diversity of local volunteers but also through the services they offer was greatly helped by Krystan’s administrative support. 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 cost-effective 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 patient-care outcomes in 11 essential areas are among the best when compared to both National and Alabama averages. Interested persons can obtain this 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.
