Algonquin Nurses was started in 1987 as a family business. Steve Tamboli and Mary his mom started the company as a staffing agency for nursing homes. They truly started the company by one patient at a time.
The industry started to change in the early 1990s. Nursing homes started to use less agencies for staffing. Steve's brother Mark joined the company to start the Medicaid Home Care department. Shortly after, Steve's sister Anne joined the group to start the Medicare Home Health department. During that time of change, the industry was rotating towards Private Support Care. (Private Pay) This was another source to provide services.
The name Algonquin was chosen because it represents quality services as in the famous Algonquin Hotel in New York City. For many years the Algonquin Hotel was the standard for style and service. It was the intentions of the founders of Algonquin Nurses to provide this quality service to their clients who need specialized personal care. We were also responding to the frustration of family members who were faced with sending their loved ones to a facility. Now an alternate choice was available.
Purpose:
To ensure quality of home health care services to patients and to provide continuity of care to home care patients, while maintaining the company's ethical standards as well as enforcing the agency's code of conduct.
Policy:
Agency home health services are guided by the agency mission and philosophy statement. The mission and philosophy statement is used as the basis for developing and maintaining the agency's home health care services.
Mission Statement
The provision of home health services by the agency is guided by the mission and philosophy. This mission is to provide for the effective and efficient delivery of health care and health-related services in areas of identifiable need, for the benefit of individuals, family and society.
The agency is dedicated to providing either directly or through contractual agreement, high quality nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social work services and home health aid services to individuals of all ages regardless of national origin, race, religoin, sex, handicaps or financial status.
Philosophy
The adoption of the appropriate philisophical approach in providing quality home health care services is based on the following basic tenets that govern our mission and goals:
- We have an obligation to serve people without regard to race, religion, sex or age.
- We will seek to assure the spiritual freedom of all people and not impose our beliefs upon them.
- We have an obligation to recognize medical-ethical issues and to promote our Code of Conduct to assist individuals & professionals in their resolution of them.
- Our concern for whole persons and their families extends beyond our patients and includes our employees, physician and volunteers and community.
- In ministering to individuals and society, we have a commitment to effectively organize and direct our resources to provide quality cost-effective health care delivery systems.
The philosophy of the home health care agency, based on the above assumptions, stipulates that each home health care patient:
- Desires home health care of services that promote the patient's value of life by:
a. minimizing negative patient illness and disability outcomes.
b. maximizing potential patient level-of-independence outcomes.
c. restoring, maintaining and promoting patient health - Possesses unique physiological, safelt, psychological, self-esteem and self-actualization needs that require consideration in the patient's plan of home health care.
- Makes choices and decisions about the provision of home health care services relative to the patient's self-defined unique needs and according to the patient's personal beliefs and values.
- Exerts personal control over the patient's personal life in collaborating with home health care staff members regarding the provisions of services.