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Alacare Conducts Public Health Lecture
at NACC
Alacare Home Health and Hospice was the
focus of a public health lecture at Northeast Alabama Community
College recently on the NACC campus. The lecture was presented
by Amanda Griffin and Lisa Salter, Volunteer Coordinators
Huntsville/Scottsboro & Gadsden/Rainsville Alacare.
Susan Barron, Director of High School Relations and Event
Planning, welcomed those in attendance. “We are so glad to have
you all here today for this lecture,” she said. She introduced
Griffin and Salter who presented information on Alacare as well
as volunteer opportunities with the organization.
Information included the company’s history, services offered,
home health care, hospice care, and volunteer opportunities.
Alacare was founded in 1970 and is in most counties throughout
Alabama. It is the state’s oldest and largest family owned
Medicare home health company. Alacare has 3,800 patients (all
services) and employs over 750 Alabamians.
The purpose of Alacare’s hospice volunteer services is to touch
hearts and lives by offering spiritual, emotional and physical
support to patients and their families. Ways to help through
direct patient contact include brief relief for the caregivers,
helping celebrate special occasions and holidays in a patient’s
life, calling patients and their families to offer a listening
ear and an encouraging word, capturing the patient’s life review
and displaying it in an audio/visual format for the family, and
doing home repairs and improvements. Volunteer activities that
do not involve direct patient contact include filing, mailings,
designing of newsletters and t-shirts, volunteer recruitment and
planning special events; participating in seasonal activities
such as making holiday gift bags or baskets, and sending cards;
baking cakes or cookies for delivery to families, especially on
birthdays or special occasions; and creating craft items such as
knitted lap blankets to enhance patient comfort. Volunteering is
a great way to help others, gain experience, meet new people,
get training that adds to job skills, achieve service hours for
your organization, and just knowing that you have made a
difference in someone’s life.
For more information on Alacare and volunteer services email
Griffin at
Amanda.Griffin@alacare.com or Salter at
Lisa.Salter@alacare.com.
To call toll free dial 866-572-5433.
The health lecture was provided free of charge. For more
information about the Health Care lecture series, contact Susan
Barron, Director of High Schools Relations and Event Planning at
NACC, ext. *2248. For information about NACC, go to the
college’s website at www.nacc.edu.
Download the college’s free App at the Apple App Store or by
going to www.naccmobile.com.
Pictured after the lecture are (L-R) Susan
Barron, Director of High School Relations and Event Planning;
Morgan Cain, NACC medical assisting student; Amanda Griffin,
Alacare Volunteer Coordinator; Melissa Watts, NACC phlebotomy
student; and Lisa Salter, Alacare Volunteer Coordinator.
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