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Brightree honors providers

November 12, 2015HME News Staff

ATLANTA - Brightree has announced the winners of its 2015 Customer Excellence Awards. They are: Wright & Filippis, Scholar Award; Advacare Home Services, Ambassador Award; Cape Medical Supply, Leading Edge Award; MDS Medical Device Specialty, Rising Star Award; GSH Home Med Care, Most Valued Provider, 25 users or less; and MedCare Equipment Company, Most Valued Provider, enterprise category. The awards recognize providers who have excelled in their use of Brightree solutions.

AdvaCare Home Services, Brightree, Cape Medical Supply, Wright & Filippis


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AdvaCare cuts costs for payers, hospitals

April 24, 2015Tracy Orzel

PITTSBURGH - AdvaCare Home Services aims to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes with its new Patient Partner Program.“It's a comprehensive assessment of our patients,” said Tammy Zelenko, president of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based HME and respiratory services company.The program, which bridges patient treatment from the hospital to home, was created based on five pillars: customized clinical care, clinical respiratory programs, technology and innovation, and outcomes and...

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In brief: Rotech, Aerocare strike again

January 23, 2015HME News Staff

ORLANDO, Fla. - Rotech has made its second acquisition in as many months: the respiratory equipment assets of a company in Natchitoches, La. The name of the company was not disclosed. “This purchase is another step in Rotech's aggressive expansion plan,” stated Tim Pigg, CEO, in a press release. “We will be continuing to further leverage and expand our presence in existing and new markets with the support of our long-term oriented investors.” In December, Rotech acquired...

AdvaCare Home Services, AeroCare Holdings, Permobil, Rotech Healthcare, Tim Pigg, VGM Insurance


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AdvaCare seeks to bridge care gap

January 21, 2015HME News Staff

PITTSBURGH - AdvaCare Home Services has launched a program to help hospitals and other healthcare providers bridge the gap between in-patient and home care. The Patient Partner Program will use technology to continuously monitor patients and create detailed, individualized patient care plans and in-home assessments, according to a press release. “The program offers physicians and doctors an additional route that helps save lives and money,” said President Tammy Zelenko. “The focus...

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AdvaCare adds a Personal Touch

October 25, 2013Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - AdvaCare Home Services is taking a new approach to patient care—one that Tammy Zelenko hopes will get patients more involved.Under a new patient monitoring program called Personal Touch, offered by a company called HealthCall, AdvaCare will provide personalized and comprehensive follow-up with COPD patients.“The patient will receive (our typical) hands-on care with our respiratory therapists going into the home and doing evaluations and assessments,” said Zelenko,...

AdvaCare Home Services, Home Medical Equipment (HME), Patient compliance


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Assume dual roles of educator, communicator

September 24, 2013Jennifer Keirn

Three years ago, AdvaCare Home Services launched a COPD program to monitor patient care data and communicate proactively with physicians and payers about their progress. It's how the Pittsburgh-based provider has generated valuable outcomes data and cemented itself into the continuum of care. “We give (physicians) information they never could have gotten on their patient otherwise,” says AdvaCare President and CEO Tammy Zelenko. “When we can intervene and tell them what's...

AdvaCare Home Services, COPD, Hospital readmission rates


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Life in Round 1: AdvaCare perseveres

March 2, 2012Elizabeth Deprey

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - After the great unknown that was January 2011, provider Tammy Zelenko is resting a little easier these days. Her company, AdvaCare Home Services, is not a contract supplier in the Pittsburgh competitive bidding area, but, a full year after Round 1 began, she's had her busiest month yet. "I had a lot of sleepless nights (last January) wondering what was really going to happen and would we be able to survive," said Zelenko, president and CEO. Here's how she did it: Keep...

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Ask for AdvaCare

December 21, 2010Mike Moran

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - AdvaCare Home Services has created a new brand that makes it crystal clear the company does way more than just drop off equipment at a patient's home. "We want patients to be able to stay at home and be happy and healthy and recover," said CEO Tammy Zelenko. "That has always been part of our mission and our vision, but how do we make that happen, and how, visually, do you portray that?" The way Zelenko did it was by hiring an advertising agency, Yearick-Millea of Pittsburgh. The...

AdvaCare Home Services, Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Home Medical Equipment (HME)


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AdvaCare builds on opportunities

June 22, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor

UNIONTOWN, Pa. - A contract with a sleep lab was the driver behind AdvaCare Home Services opening a new location here. The lab had already contracted with AdvaCare to service its patients in Bridgeville, Pa., so when it approached the provider about servicing Uniontown, that's where President and CEO Tammy Zelenko set her sights. "I'd been asking myself, where's our next location, where's our next location?'" she said. "The contract triggered me to say, 'OK, this makes...

AdvaCare Home Services, Growth, New location


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AdvaCare Home Services shoots for repeat success

June 30, 2008HME News Staff

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa.--After an experiment with a retail layout at its Beaver, Pa., location “went extremely well,” AdvaCare Home Services debuted a similar layout at its Pittsburgh location in June. “We've doubled our sales in Beaver, and every month, sales continue to grow,” said President and CEO Tammy Zelenko. “Our therapist does about five or six mask fittings in one day.” AdvaCare held a grand opening June 9-13 for the redesigned Pittsburgh location. Events...

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