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A grant from Discover Bank will
purchase two seven-passenger vans to aide the Sussex County
Medical Transportation program. In 2004, the Sussex County
program provided 2,208 medical transportation trip.
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Generations Home Care received a grant from
The Christmas
Shop to purchase one Pulse Oximeter for New Castle County.
The Pulse Oximeter monitors the respiratory condition of our
home health patient with a respiratory problem. This is a
non-invasive procedure used to determine oxygen saturation in
the blood.
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Generations Home Care is joining The Family
& Workplace Connection’s Elder Care Services Advisory Committee
to review current services and programs for future planning
initiatives by Family & Workplace Connection.
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The agency is also collaborating with
Wilmington Senior Center and other elder service providers on an
Aging Network Committee. The committee is made up of statewide
providers. The committee is preparing a “position paper” on
aging services and gaps in service to this growing population.
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The Dover office of Generations Home Care will eventually
relocate to new space in the professional office building at
Modern Maturity Center. Modern Maturity Center will break ground
for the new site before the summer.
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Since 2001, the demand for dialysis and
medical transportation increased dramatically. Our medical
transportation drivers provided transportation for 96 clients in
1999, 132 clients in 2001, and 400 clients in 2002. Starting
with one van in 1988, by 2002, our fleet of vehicles included
four (4) wheelchair accessible vehicles and four (4)
seven-passenger vans.
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Last year, Generations Home Care provided
transportation service to 1,217 clients. We traveled over 65,096
miles to 8,712 medical appointments. This is a remarkable
accomplishment for a program that began with volunteers.
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Females make up 63% of all clients needing transportation. Our
oldest client is a 97-year-old female in Sussex County needing a
ride to her primary care physician. We also provided service to
a 96-year-old female in New Castle County needing an eye exam at
the Nemours Health Clinic.
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Children traveling on our vans range in age
from 8 months to 17 years. Our youngest client in 2004 was an
8-month old Sussex County infant. Generations Home Care
identified an unmet community need and developed a service to
improve access to dialysis and non-emergency medical care.
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- 2005 Quality Apple Award, Quality Insights of Delaware, the
state's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, established
the Golden Apple Awards Recognition Program in 2000 to provide
recognition for Delaware health providers in their community and
among their peers for improving patient care. The awards
represent the highest level of professional acknowledgment in
Delaware's health care quality improvement arena. Three
types of awards recognize providers' efforts: Quality Associate,
Quality Innovator, and Quality Leader. Awards are given in
four separate health care venues, one of which is home health
agency.
The Golden Apple Award for Quality Leadership was
presented to Generation Home Care in a special award
ceremony held May 4 at Hotel DuPont for improvement in pain
management. Generations Home Care is the only home health
agency receiving the award at the May 4th ceremony.
- Generations Home Care received the second grant from
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals to complete the revamp of the agency
brochures and upgrade the website. For the first time in
many years, Generations Home Care has a professional look.
- Generations Home Care participated in a special
groundbreaking ceremony May 2, 2005 at the Modern Maturity
Center. The event highlighted the new Medical Facility
Building to be located behind the Modern Maturity Center in
Dover.
- May 26, 2005, Generations Home Care and seven Delaware Aging
Network members met with members of the board of the Delaware
Community Foundation to discuss support for aging programs and
services in the next round DCF program funding.
- Please welcome the following staff to Generations Home Care
Family; New Castle County - Semaja Banks, Lakeesha
Bellamy, Rafael Carbajal, Katherine Crump, Gideon Danso,
Adekunle Gbadamosi, Joanna Jones, Lakisha King, Rosanna Laboy,
Ayanna Meyers, and Blanche Turner. Kent County - Trudiann
Brown, Tanja Garcia, Latonya Lewis, Denise Roberts, Irene
Roberts, Alice Smith, and Carlett Sweeney. Sussex
County - Delcine Brown, Channell Carter, Sabrina Johnson,
Donna Mabry, Marie Marcelin, Sabrina Marland, Wilhelmina Miffin,
Camille Parker, Asa Robinson, Charlene Saunders, Karen Tallent,
and Dolores Williams.
- Beginning March 2005, Generations Home Care has a new look. A
grant from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals assisted the
agency in redesigning all program brochures. The Adult Foster
Care, Medical Transportation, Homemaker, Housekeeping and Home
Health Care programs have a new design and format. Plans are in
the work to redesign the table displays used by staff at health
fairs, senior centers and other worksites to educate the
consumer about home health care. The new brochures complete one
critical focus of the Strategic Plan.
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