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Friday, October 14, 2011

10/14/11 Sterling Care Press Release About The Closing Of VNHC In Stamford - Greenwich Based Company Offers Assistance To The Byram's Seniors

Thank you again so much for all of your assistance in helping to promote a local business that really cares for the health and welfare of our local residents and is hiring locally as we grow.

With kind regards.

Steven B. Katz

President

Sterling Care LLC

203 532-0500

www.sterlingcare.com


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Press Contact: Steven Katz

Sterling Care: 203-930-7098

E-Mail: steve.katz@sterlingcare.com


Sterling Care Provides An Alternative Local Choice For Medicare Part A and B Clients Who Wish To Transfer Agencies From the Closing Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care in Stamford

Greenwich, Conn.—October 11, 2011— Sterling Care (www.sterlingcare.com), the only full service holistic home health care company based in Greenwich, is providing an alternative choice for people who wish to change their home care provider to a locally owned and operated home health care agency due to the closing of Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of Southwestern Connecticut in Stamford.

“With the closing of VNHC in Stamford, their patients have a choice to select their homecare provider and do not have to stay with the large Wallingford based agency that is taking over their client base” said Steve Katz, Sterling Care’s president and founder. Katz noted that “Sterling Care is a Greenwich owned and operated company that is very personable and understands the demanding needs of our local clientele. Our mission is to deliver the highest level of care while respecting the privacy and dignity of our clients and their families. Our services can be requested by calling us directly at 203-532-0500 or by requesting us as your home care provider with your hospital or facility discharge planner.”

“Sterling Care is different than other home health care agencies in three distinct ways.” Katz said, “First we are a one stop shop providing both medical and non-medical care to our clients including Medicare Part A and B and private pay services. This allows our clients to use us for their Medicare case as well as any additional medical or non-medical private pay services that they may need without having to go to another agency. Many of our private pay services are reimbursable by a client’s insurance. Second, we care for all members of a family throughout their health care life cycle events so we see each client and their family not as a single shot episode of care but as a potential long term client who we develop an ongoing relationship with and go the extra mile for in providing services and support. Lastly, our unique holistic approach has us assess and treat a client’s body, mind and spirit to provide the best medical outcomes and the highest quality of life.”

About Sterling Care

Sterling Care is the only locally owned and operated full service licensed home health care agency based in Greenwich, Conn. serving the Town of Greenwich and all of the cities and towns in lower Fairfield County. The agency is fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission For Health Care, Inc. Sterling Care provides personalized in-home non-medical care and medical care, including visiting nurse services, for seniors with Medicare Part A and B as well as private pay seniors, adults and children who need assistance while recovering from surgery or an illness and people with special needs. The agency also provides geriatric care management as well as baby attendant care for infants and their moms.

Sterling Care approaches home health care from a holistic mind, body and spirit perspective. Its staff undergoes rigorous initial and ongoing training in patient safety and physical care, communication skills, hospitality, homemaking, meal preparation, feeding and a variety of mental and spiritual activities. Sterling Care offers a free initial assessment in preparation of an individualized Plan of Care.

The Sterling Care office is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more information please telephone 203-532-0500, send e-mail to info@sterlingcare.com or visit www.sterlingcare.com.

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10/12/11 YOU WONT READ THIS IN THE GREENWICH TIME: Town Seniors To Suffer As Visiting Nurse Service Shuts Down


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Thursday, October 13, 2011

10/13/11 The Raw Byram News Feed

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10/13/11 10/12/11 YOU WONT READ THIS IN THE GREENWICH TIME: Byram Seniors To Suffer As Visiting Nurse Service Shuts Down

The Town Of Greenwich seems to be unaware that the Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of Southwestern Connecticut plans is shut down and turning over the town patients to a Wallingford Visiting Nurse Service by late November.

Greenwich seniors who need home health care will no longer serviced by the Stamford-based agency that has operated in Fairfield County since 1912.

The Visiting Nurse service provided hundreds town seniors with nursing and home health aide services, as well as physical, speech and occupational therapy and social work services.

The Visiting Nurse agency employs more than 130 full-time and per-diem employees, many of whom are dispatched daily to assist Greenwich seniors.

At the very least, the Greenwich Department of Social services should oversee and monitor the transition and transfer of town patients from VNHC's care to Masonicare Home Health of Wallingford,

Or better yet, the Greenwich Department of Social services should locate other local agencies to ensure quality of care is maintained for Greenwich Seniors.

VNHC management and employees seem to be more interested in gaining employment with Wallingford based Masonicare instead of finding Greenwich seniors locally based care.

Some local home health aids have told Greenwich Roundup that Masonicare is a bureaucratic nightmare that employs 2,500 people statewide, including 1,200 in its home care division alone.

A VNHC-Masonicare Advisory Board is being established in the coming weeks to prepare Masonicare for the flood of hundreds of VNHC patients including patients from the Richard C. Rosenthal Hospice for terminally ill patients.

Letters notifying Greenwich patients about the decision were sent out this week.

The letters also provided additional information on making a choice between Masonicare or another health or hospice provider if necessary.

But Greenwich seniors need more information and help in transferring to smaller and more local home health services.

The effect on the great majority of Greenwich VNHC patients who receive home health care and hospice care is expected to be horribly disruptive if they are care for out of Wallingford.

The Town of Greenwich Social Services Department should step in to assist Greenwich seniors in finding a local area health or hospice provider.

Calls from Greenwich Roundup to the state Department of Health regarding the proposed closure were not returned as of press time tonight.

Greenwich VNHC nurses carry a caseload of 20 to 25 patients each week, and are responsible for balancing their group's treatment needs.

Greenwich Roundup believes the arrangement with Masonicare will provide Greenwich seniors less control over the type of care they are given.

Will social workers or family members have to go up to the Wallingford corporate offices to complain?

Just how reliable will home health care be in Greenwich when it is dispatched out of Wallingford?

Greenwich seniors would be served by a local visiting nurse service, but no one in the town seems to be prepared to help them make the transfer.

Greenwich Roundup says, something needs to be done now to help the towns seniors who are being ignored and taken advantage of.

Does the town even maintain a list of local home health agencies?

If anyone knows of a local area home health agency that help Greenwich seniors please send the information to GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com

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Friday, October 7, 2011

10/07/11 The Raw Byram News Feed

A News Report About Byram, CT
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Greenwich Time
Byram resident Michael Parrotta is facing attempted murder and first-degree assault charges for allegedly stabbing his wife with a screwdriver in April 2009. Photo: Contributed Photo / CT STAMFORD -- The ex-wife of a Greenwich man accused of stabbing ...

Sunday, October 2, 2011

10/02/11 The Raw Byram News Feed

News Reports About Byram, CT
Greenwich Open Houses: 49 Houses from $349K to $16MM Sunday, Oct. 2nd
Patch.com
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

10/01/11 The Raw Byram News Feed

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