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Bayshore Home Health opens office to better meet growing home care needs of Red Deer community

Red Deer, AB, June 6, 2011 – Bayshore Home Health, Canada's largest provider of home and community health care services, announced today the opening of a new office in Red Deer. The office will provide in-home nursing care, personal care, home support, corporate wellness clinics, fall prevention and more.

"This new Bayshore branch will help the growing, aging population in Red Deer and surrounding areas," says Patricia Compton, the manager of clinical practice for the office. "We have an especially large senior population here as people move from farms or smaller rural centers to the city where they can find the services they require. In addition, local seniors want to stay in their homes as long as possible to maintain their independence."

Bayshore Home Health will focus on providing service directly to the public and to people receiving care through their insurance provider. There's a need for an increased health presence in the community given the number of people who are taking care of loved ones and the high percentage of seniors living in the area.

"Many people don't understand the kind of services that home health care provides or that they have options beyond institutional care," adds Compton. "It's the goal of our new office to make people more aware of home health care and Bayshore's ability to bring professional services and individualized care to our clients in the comfort of their homes."

The company is in the process of hiring nurses, care aides and home support workers to meet the demand for its services throughout Red Deer and expects to hire additional staff as the branch expands.

The new office, centrally located at 4928 53rd Avenue, Suite 200 in Red Deer, will operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week and provide a wide range of personalized home care services including:

• Free in-home assessments and care supervision by a registered nurse.
• Personal care and hygiene such as grooming, washing and bathing, basic hand and foot care, dressing, assistance with eating, and accompaniment to appointments and other activities.
• Home support such as light housekeeping, meal preparation and laundry.
• Companion services through personal visits to the home to share a cup of tea or go for a walk.
• In-home nursing care including administering medication, wound and skin care, advanced foot care, and pain and symptom management.
• Caregivers specially trained to assist clients with serious injuries, acquired brain injury, palliative care and dementia.
• Nurse and caregiver staffing services for health care organizations and other businesses.
• Corporate wellness clinics.

"Our services allow seniors, individuals living with disability and people with a wide range of acute or chronic care needs to live comfortably in their own homes, preserving their independence and dignity and enhancing their quality of life," says Compton. "They will also help alleviate some of the stress families experience as they try to help elderly parents while working full-time and caring for children of their own."

A free Wellness Clinic will be held on Wednesday, June 15th from 3:00 to 7:00 pm at the new office located at 4928 53rd Avenue, Suite 200. Members of the community are invited to attend. A registered nurse will be on hand to answer questions and provide on the spot results for blood pressure.

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 and 20 community care clinics. It delivers nursing, personal care, home support and companion services to more than 70,000 Canadians annually, as well as nurse and caregiver staffing services. Its subsidiaries provide specialty pharmacy, infusion and patient support services to pharmaceutical companies and health care organizations (Bayshore Specialty Rx), physiotherapy and rehabilitation services (Bayshore Therapy & Rehab) and dialysis services (Bayshore Dialysis).

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