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Bayshore Home Health and Dell Pharmacy give customers the gift of health

Mississauga, ON, Nov. 5, 2010 – Bayshore Home Health is offering Dell Pharmacy customers a different twist on the popular and ubiquitous gift card. Dell customers who purchase myNurse or other home care services from Bayshore Home Health will receive a $50 gift card good for any purchase at Dell's retail pharmacy locations. The gift cards can be redeemed at any time up to December 31, 2011.

"It's the ultimate thank you and get-well card all rolled into one," says Linda McInnis, community relations manager at Bayshore Home Health's Hamilton branch. "The gift card lets Bayshore say 'thank you for your business' and can be used towards the purchase of home health products, prescriptions, patient aids – virtually anything that's sold at Dell Pharmacies."

Bayshore Home Health is the country's largest home health care provider, and offers a variety of services including:

• In-home nursing care including administering medication, wound and skin care, advanced foot care and pain, and pain and symptom management.
• Personal care and hygiene such as grooming, washing and bathing, basic hand and foot care, dressing, assistance with eating, and other activities.
• Home support such as light housekeeping, meal preparation and laundry.
• Companion services through personal visits to the home or accompaniment on appointments and shopping.
• Caregivers specially trained to assist clients with serious injuries, acquired brain injury, palliative care and dementia.
• The myNurse health management program that lets people arrange monthly or quarterly home visits with a registered nurse who provides regular health, monitoring, education and planning.
• Free in-home assessments and care supervision by a registered nurse.
• Home care funding investigations to help people understand and access alternative ways to pay for home care.

"At Dell Pharmacy we believe our professional responsibilities go beyond the pharmacy and into the communities we serve," says Dell spokesman Kelli Vriend. "This joint gift card promotion with Bayshore Home Health is just one example of how we're supporting patient needs by encouraging them to find care that lets them live independently in their own homes for as long as possible."

Dell pharmacists have a long tradition of supporting people in the areas where they do business. They typically speak to health care groups, local employers, seniors' residences and more on various aspects of healthy living. Dell Pharmacy also sponsors public seminars on a variety of health related topics including cholesterol and diabetes.

Bayshore Home Health and Dell Pharmacy's joint program is being promoted at 17 Dell Pharmacy retail locations in the Hamilton and Niagara regions. Cities with a Dell Pharmacy include Ancaster, Beamsville, Brantford, Burlington, Dunnville, Hamilton, Smithville, St. Catharines and Welland.

About Dell Pharmacies

Since 1967, Dell Pharmacy has focused on its customers' wellness, helping them to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle by providing professional services and products, as well as information on health related issues. Dell customers receive personalized dispensing services such as drug usage monitoring, prescription medication handouts, counseling and consulting services, adherence medication programs and professional compounding. Dell Pharmacy currently has over 400 employees and 17 stores in the Hamilton-Niagara region. For more information visit www.dellpharmacy.com.

About Bayshore Home Health

Bayshore Home Health has been enhancing the quality of life, dignity and independence of Canadians in their homes since 1966. Canadian owned and operated, it is the country's largest provider of home and community health care services, with more than 50 home care offices, 20 community care clinics and 8,000 employees. Its core services are in-home nursing, personal care and home support – which can be purchased directly by individuals and also accessed through government care programs, personal and group insurance plans and workplace safety insurance. The company also provides nurse/caregiver staffing services, health education programs and treatments in its community dialysis centres. Through its subsidiary, Bayshore Specialty Rx, it offers infusion pharmacy, infusion clinic and pharmaceutical support services to a variety of health care and pharmaceutical organizations.

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