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Alton, Illinois.:VNA-TIP
HomeCare announces the acquisition of Hospital Home Care and Luke
Memorial Hospice divisions of Pinckneyville Community Hospital. This
acquisition strengthens VNA-TIPs position as one of the Midwests largest
providers of Medicare-certified home health and hospice services. It also
assures Pinckneyville residents and those in surrounding communities that they
will continue to receive the quality care they have come to expect from
Hospital Home Care and Luke Memorial Hospice.
Pinckneyville Community
Hospital chose to divest itself of the home health and hospice operations as it
moves forward with plans to build a new hospital. Hospital Home Care began
providing service in 1990 and serves patients within a 40-mile radius of
Pinckneyville. The hospice began operations in 1992 and was named Luke Memorial
Hospice in 2003 in honor of deceased hospice director Gerre Luke.
Hospital
Home Care has provided quality services to area residents for many years,
according to Gary Liebscher, VNA-TIP President. We are pleased to be able to
acquire such a fine operation and to be able to retain the staff members who
are so well known and respected in the community. Hospital Home Care and
VNA-TIP were both named to the Home Care Elite listing for 2007, so there is a
good fit between our operations. Patients should expect to have the same nurses
and therapists providing the same high quality care.
Barbara Brand, RN, has
been manager of Hospital Home Care and Luke Memorial Hospice since 1992. She
will continue as manager with VNA-TIP. The offices will be located on the west
side of the square in space formerly occupied by the hospitals billing
department.
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HomeCare has a history dating back to the 1917 founding of the VNA of
Alton/Wood River. The agency has grown with the acquisitions of the Visiting
Nurse Association of Illinois in 1999, TIP Home Health Services in 2001, and
St. Elizabeths Home Health Service of Belleville in 2007, as well as many
smaller home health and hospice agencies.
:p>VNA-TIP
HomeCare now has 13 home health offices in Illinois, including
Belleville, Benton, Carlyle, Centralia, Marion, and Murphysboro. There are also
4 branch locations in eastern Missouri. The agency provides skilled nursing,
physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social
services, home health aides, and IV infusions under doctors orders in patients
homes.
TIP Hospice has 7 Illinois offices and 4 in Missouri. Hospice and
palliative care services are provided in patients homes and nursing homes by a
team of nurses, nurse aides, social workers, chaplains, volunteers, and hospice
medical directors working with the patients physician and family.
To learn
more about :p>VNA-TIP
HomeCare and TIP Hospice call 800-642-6099 or visit the website,
www.vnatip.com.
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