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For More Information: Becky Allcorn (512) 338-9293
AUSTIN, Tex.— January 24, 2011 - Texas home care and hospice workers will give special recognition and attention to their clients during a statewide “Operation Care Stronger” program in February. Home care and hospice agencies provide skilled and supportive care from simple assistance in activities of daily living to high-tech IV therapy to persons of all ages throughout the state. Services include preventive, acute, sub-acute, rehabilitative, long-term, and end of life care.
Anita Bradberry, Executive Director of the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice, said that “participating home care and hospice agencies will provide their clients with a special Valentine’s Day greeting to highlight the effort, reinforcing the concern and respect we have for those who can no longer live completely independently.”
Home care and hospice care provides tens of thousands of Texans the choice to remain in their homes instead of being placed in institutional care. “Consumers without families especially need to be reminded that there are those who care and respect them and Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to make that point,” Bradberry said.
She encouraged other Texans to remember their friends and neighbors who are sick, medically fragile, have disabilities or terminal illnesses, who are children, young adults or elderly, and to let them know that Texas cares.
There are more than 4,500 licensed agencies in Texas. The Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice Inc., is a statewide non-profit trade organization whose mission is to promote quality and economic viability of licensed providers of home and community support services in Texas. Many clients are served under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as private insurance or private arrangements.
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