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Keith Mayhew, an Eddy Visiting Nurse Association home health aide, cares for homebound clients, especially those with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS.

Congratulations to all the Meaningful Milestones awardees at Eddy Village Green at Cohoes. Forty-seven people received awards for their five-year increments of service, including two 20-year awardees, three 25-year awardees, and a 30-year awardee!

On September 30, SPHP President of Continuing Care Kim Baker, Vice President of Clinical Operations for the Continuing Care Aimee Carlson, and Dr. James Figge St. Peter’s Diabetes & Endocrine Care in Rensselaer presented to colleagues from System Office and other RHMs at the Trinity Health Clinical Summit in Michigan. Baker spoke about SPHP being the first organization in New York state, and one of only a few organizations in the United States, to receive Integrated Care Certification from the Joint Commission. Among the SPHP hospitals and facilities included in the certification, 3,460 patient lives were touched with a very low readmittance rate of 4 percent. Carlson spoke about initiatives focusing on care delivery and reducing readmissions, and discussed how skilled nursing facilities are more prepared to take on more medically complex patients under a value-based reimbursement model. Dr. Figge presented on diabetes prevention, with a focus on better identification of patients with pre-diabetes in order to prevent progression to Type 2 diabetes.