Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which a man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor FranklContact Title1905-1997
Home care has specifically been proven to be a compassionate, cost-effective means of delivering essential health services.
- U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
I have the highest respect for them, especially for the nurses, aides and therapists, who devote their lives to caring for people with disabilities, the infirm and dying Americans. There are few more noble professions.
- President Barack Obama
One thing I know: the only ones who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer1875 - 1965
Nursing is love in action and there is no finer manifestation of it than the care of the poor and disabled in their own homes.
- Lillian Wald1867 - 1940
The greatest source of happiness is in forgetting yourself and trying seriously and honestly to be useful to others.
- Millicent Fenwick1910 - 1992
What is important is that one be capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes1900 - 1993
If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney1901 - 1966
Get outside your suffering and into the suffering of others and you will soon find that you do not have any.
- Virginia Henderson1897-1996
Depend upon it. Men will not care for people who care only for themselves.
- Frederick Douglass1818 - 1895
When a man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he himself becomes a powerful force.
- Leo Buscaglia1924 - 1998
Our greatest urge is to be loved. The need to be loved is fundamental. It is love that holds us together as human beings.
- Maya Angelou1928 -
Life breaks us all but the lucky ones grow stronger in the mended places.
- Max Cleland1942 -
Nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
- Eleanor Roosevelt1884 - 1962
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill1874 - 1965
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead1901 - 1978
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.1929 - 1968
There is joy in transcending self to serve others.
- Mother Teresa1910 - 1997
Make it better. Do all that you can to make life better for others.
- Claude Pepper1900 - 1989
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
- John F Kennedy1917 - 1963
If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.
- Jimmy Carter1924 -
Whether for the individual or for the nation, self is best served by transcending self.
- Frank E. Moss1911 - 2003
Each of us has within us a Mother Teresa and a Hitler; it is up to us to choose what we want to be. Free choice is the greatest gift God gave to his children.
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross1926 - 2004
Taking risks and not being afraid to fail are the only ways to make our dreams and goals come true. You must reach for the gold every day!
- Mary Lou Retton1968 -
America is compassion, the conviction that we will never move this country ahead by leaving some of our people behind.
- John Glenn1921 -
Single acts of kindness make this a better world. It is easy to care for somebody else and thankfully most Americans do, but we need to do a lot more caring for one another.
- Senator Robert Dole1923 -
I have the highest respect for [home care and hospice], especially the nurses, aides, and therapists who devote their lives to caring for people with disabilities, the infirm, and dying. There are few more noble professions.
- Barack Obama1961 -
One of the most important elements in a humane and effective health care system is the ability to treat people in their own homes when medically appropriate. Improving home care services should be at the top of Congress’s priorities; it is certainly at the top of my own personal legislative agenda for health care.
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy1932 - 2009
The greatest joy one can have is doing something for another without any thought of getting something in return.
- John Wooden1910 - 2010
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein1879 - 1955
Love is God; that is the only God that I really recognize. Love equals God.
- Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Ghandhi1869 - 1948
You have to be honest with people. You have to have great respect for yourself. If you see something that is not right, you must do something about it.
- Annie Wauneka1910 - 1997
We can only survive when we have a goal — a passionate purpose which bears upon the public interest.
- Maggie Kuhn1905 - 1995
People mold us. They can inspire us, depress us, or excite us. If you look for the best in every person, the best will reveal itself.
- Norman Vincent Peale1898 - 1993
A celebrity serves himself or herself. A hero goes out and redeems society.
- Joseph Campbell1904 - 1987
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain1835 - 1910
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
- Barbara Jordan1936 - 1996
The moral test of good government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey1911 - 1978
All men have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.
- Norman Cousins1915 - 1990
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit.
- Dr. Dorothy Height1912 - 2010
It is futile to love in order that we be loved in return. As soon as it is recruited to some other purpose it ceases to be love.
- Hugh Downs1921 -
There are three major hallmarks of the 21st century: caring for people, cooperating with people, and empowering people.
- Mike Vance1921 -
Home health care agencies do such a wonderful job in this country helping people to be able to remain at home and allowing them to receive services
- U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Chair, Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee
Heath care at home…is something we need more of, not less of. Let us make a commitment to preventive and long-term care. Let us encourage home care as an alternative to nursing homes and give folks a little help to have their parents there.
- Former President Bill Clinton
Home care increasingly is one of the basic building blocks in the developing system of long-term care. On both economic and recuperative bases, home health care will continue to grow as an essential service for individuals, for families and for the community as a whole.
- Former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Home care is a combination of compassion and efficiency. It is less expensive than institutional care...but at the same time it is a more caring, human, intimate experience, and therefore it has a greater human element...it’s a big mistake not to try to maximize it and find ways to give people the home care option over either nursing homes, hospitals or other institutions
- Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
Medicaid covers long-term care, but only for low-income families. And Medicare only pays for care that is connected to a hospital discharge....our health care system must cover these vital services...[and] we should promote home-based care, which most people prefer, instead of the institutional care that we emphasize now.
- Former U.S. Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-CD)
We need incentives to...keep people in home health care settings...It’s dramatically less expensive than long term care.
- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
Home care is clearly the wave of the future. It’s clearly where patients want to be cared for. I come from an ethnic family and when a member of our family is severely ill, we would never consider taking them to get institutional care. That’s true of many families for both cultural and financial reasons. If patients have a choice of where they want to be cared for, where it’s done the right way, they choose home.
- Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
A couple of years ago, I spent a little bit of time with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and its president, Val J. Halamandaris, and I was just blown away. What impressed me so much was that they talked about what they do as opposed to just the strategies of how to deal with Washington or Sacramento or Albany or whatever the case may be. Val is a fanatic about care, and it comes through in every way known to mankind. It comes through in the speakers he invites to their events; it comes through in all the stuff he shares.
- Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence
Val’s home care organization brings thousands of caregivers together into a dynamic organization that provides them with valuable resources and tools to be even better in their important work. He helps them build self-esteem, which leads to self-motivation.
- Mike Vance, former Dean of Disney and author of Think Out of the Box
Val is one of the greatest advocates for seniors in America. He goes beyond the call of duty every time.
- Arthur S. Flemming, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Val has brought the problems, the challenges, and the opportunities out in the open for everyone to look at. He is a visionary pointing the direction for us.
- Margaret (Peg) Cushman, Professor of Nursing and former President of the Visiting Nurses Association
Although Val has chosen to stay in the background, he deserves much of the credit for what was accomplished both at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, where he was closely associated with me and at the House Select Committee on Aging, where he was Congressman Claude Pepper’s senior counsel and closest advisor. He put together more hearings on the subject of aging, wrote more reports, drafted more bills, and had more influence on the direction of events than anyone before him or since.
- Frank E. Moss, former U.S. Senator
Val’s most important contribution is pulling together all elements of home health care and being able to organize and energize the people involved in the industry.
Anyone working on health care issues in Congress knows the name Val J. Halamandaris.
- Kathleen Gardner Cravedi, former Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Aging
All of us have been members of many organizations and NAHC is simply the best there is. NAHC aspires to excellence in every respect; its staff has been repeatedly honored as the best in Washington; the organization lives by the highest values and has demonstrated a passionate interest in the well-being of patients and providers.
- Elaine Stephens, Director of Home Care of Steward Home Care/Steward Health Systems and former NAHC C
In the various roles he has undertaken through the years, Val J. Halamandaris has been a singular driving force behind the policy and program initiatives resulting in the recognition of home health care as a viable alternative to institutionalization. His dedication to consumer advocacy, which enhances the quality of life and dignity of those receiving home health care, merits VNA HealthCare Group’s highest recognition and deepest respect.
- VNA HealthCare Group
Without your untiring support and active participation, the voices of people advocating meaningful and compassionate health care reform may not have been heard by national leaders.
- Michael Sullivan, Former Executive Director, Indiana Association for Home Care
NCOA is excited to be part of this great event and honored to have such influential award winners in the field of aging.
- National Council of Aging
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