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5/21/2010 - Alacare Raises $5,000 for Calhoun County Relay For Life
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2010
CONTACT: Richard Nieves
Alacare Home Health & Hospice
Phone: 205.981.8000 or 800.852.4724
E-mail: Richard.Nieves@alacare.com
ALACARE RAISES $5,000 FOR CALHOUN COUNTY RELAY FOR LIFE
Alacare Home Health & Hospice Anniston Branch honors co-worker
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Alacare Home Health & Hospice Anniston branch had another successful year with the 2010 Calhoun County Relay For Life on May 7 and helped raise $5,000 for the fight against cancer. The team chose the name Alacare Team Lisa to honor co-worker Lisa Worthington who is currently battling breast cancer and selected the Florida Keys “Keys to the Cure” as this year’s theme.
Alacare Team Lisa kicked off fundraising efforts in April with a community yard sale that included donated items from branch employees and raised over $1,100 with its first event. Two weeks later the team held its second fundraiser “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and added $700 more to their efforts by selling $5 tickets for a cheeseburger, chips, drink and cookie. Alacare employees and their spouses grilled over 225 cheeseburgers and delivered them to local businesses that day. Keeping with their “Keys to the Cure” theme, Alacare Team Lisa put together a “beach basket” which included beach and summer items donated by Alacare employees. The team accepted $1 donations for a chance to win the beach basket given away at the Relay for Life event.
In addition to the fundraisers, Alacare Team Lisa also raised funds through the Relay For Life website. The website generated $865 through online donations. Alacare Home Health & Hospice did a company match of $1,000 helping the team reach the $5,000 mark for the event. The team’s campsite was decorated to match its “Keys to the Cure” theme and ensure a fun night for employees, their spouses and friends.
“It was such a team effort by the whole branch,” said Kelli Greenwood, an Alacare employee and Calhoun County Relay For Life committee member. “The $5,000 we raised puts us that much closer to a cure for cancer so that no one will ever have to suffer from this horrible disease.”
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, home care aides, hospice/palliative care, 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.
