Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Christmas 2009
Today all the nurses and aids that work for Home Health Solutions are out delivering hot meals and fruit bags to all the Home Health Solutions patients. The meals and fruit bags are donated each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas by the Lemmie and Mabel Andrews Charitable Foundation. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Gumbo for the Heart
Just wanted to let everyone to know my new book Gumbo for the Heart will be avaliable for purchase in January 2010 online at Amazon.com or on my website gumbofortheheart.net.
Christmas 2009
Hello everyone just to let you know we are working on getting the Christmas 2009 patient dinner organized. Every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Lemmie & Mabel Andrews Charitable Foundation pays for the Home Health Solutions patients to have a hot meal and/or a fruit basket. For some of these patients this is the only hot meals they will have this year. Our patients look forward to this each year, and we enjoy being able to bring a glimmer of happiness and joy into their lives during the Holiday Season. If you would like to know how you can help out or make a donation to the Lemmie & Mabel Andrews Charitable Foundation please email me at hsihhcare@aol.com. Thanks and I hope you too give to those in need this season!
Biography
Dianne Andrews is from a small town in northern Louisiana but you would not know it from where she has been and where she is going. Ms. Andrews has traveled the world including Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, Mexico, Canada and Caribbean. From her travels, she has gained knowledge and insight into the world. What this really means is that she understands people because they are what make the world what it is – the good and the bad. Ms. Andrews is brilliant, yet humble and compassionate. She has a true drive and instinct for business, besides being a perfectionist and a workaholic. Yet, all these adjectives are what make her a successful businesswoman.
Ms. Andrews spent her first years after college with IBM. This is where she grew, as a professional and as an individual. When she graduated college she was only 19 years old. She was first employed as a computer programmer in New York, then on to the space shuttle project in Houston, Texas, at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center. Then she was promoted to a business process reengineering consultant with IBM. She also held several management positions such as, systems engineering, marketing in New Jersey, where she was the only black marketing manager in the state.
Ms Andrews has always been the person who was given many challenges or great opportunities, as she looks at it. She has always turned lemons into lemonade, no matter how difficult it was to get water and even if she had to process the sugar cane into sugar. For example, she was given a marketing territory that was created from other manager’s territories that had not reached their quota objectives. She received her marketing representatives from other marketing units. Of course other marketing managers do not give up their best employees. Therefore what she had was a non-revenue producing territory, and what was believed to be a mediocre marketing team. However, she turned lemons into lemonade. She led by example, hard work, discipline, honesty and listening to the customers. Because of these traits, her marketing unit ended the year #1 and she was marketing manager of the year. She promoted the members of her team and received awards for three of her nine employees. She was told to fire one female marketing representative, but Ms Andrews decided to work with her to achieve her quota through her leadership.
Ms. Andrews was promoted at IBM, as a marketing training director in Atlanta. She then moved to Connecticut as the only black female branch manager executive on the east coast with IBM. Again she was given the of a “made up” territory from two other branch units in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ms. Andrews always believed in learning from successful individuals. She started a seminar business called Promotion Success, Inc., while at IBM in New Jersey. These day long seminars used successful individuals to motivate the attendants to reach their goals. Over 20 speakers taught on personal development, business, corporate and interpersonal success. Her motto is. “reach up, reach out and reach within to setup, get out and get it done.”
In 1998, Ms. Andrews incorporated a Home Health Agency. Her dream was to pay under privileged, dedicated employees higher than industry average wages. She wanted her employees to experience a higher quality of life. She wanted to give back to the black and underclass community. Immediately she started a patient fund to assist home health patients to obtain their medicines and pay their utilities. Many patients’ medicines cost up to $500 per month. Their social security checks may only be $500 to $600 a month. This leaves the very sick, elderly patients with a challenging decision. These patients sometimes have to make a decision between food and medicine. Ms. Andrews spearheaded car washes, fashion shows and bake sales to assist patients with medication, utilities and other necessities or Ms. Andrews paid money for their medicine with her own money.
Ms. Andrews currently owns two home health agencies, Home Health Solutions, LLC and Healthy Care, LLC. Even after the major shakedown in the home health industry in 1999, Ms. Andrews was able to not only survive but grow in this touch environment. She is listed as the 8th largest women owned business in Baton Rouge with approximately 85 employees.
Ms. Andrews believes education is the key to success. She has a bachelor of science in mathematics. She attended Our Lady of the Lake College in 1998, and completed all course work for nursing with a 4.0 GPA. She was accepted in nursing school but declined because of the day time courses. Then in 1999, she started her MBA at the University of Phoenix. She completed that course work with a 3.90 GPA in December 2000.
Ms. Andrews moved to Baton Rouge to care for her mother who recently passed away. She is currently working on the sequel to Third Man Out. Ms. Andrews' newest venture is a copyrighted product line, “Gumbo For the Heart” which includes motivational calendars, posters and bookmarks. She is currently developing an inspirational book of her quotes entitled Gumbo For the Heart, which will be avaliable for purchase at Amazon.com in January 2010. A portion of the proceeds from her calendar is donated to her patient fund. This is another way she gives back to the community. The website, gumbofortheheart.net has been developed for online purchases of her products and information on other ventures.
Ms. Andrews is quite a role model and an inspiration to other young women. She has creativity, talent, brains, energy, and is very spiritual. She believes God has always carried her at her lowest moments. Her desire is to broaden people’s lives by positive experiences. For that reason she has started Promoting Success Consulting again.
Ms. Andrews spent her first years after college with IBM. This is where she grew, as a professional and as an individual. When she graduated college she was only 19 years old. She was first employed as a computer programmer in New York, then on to the space shuttle project in Houston, Texas, at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center. Then she was promoted to a business process reengineering consultant with IBM. She also held several management positions such as, systems engineering, marketing in New Jersey, where she was the only black marketing manager in the state.
Ms Andrews has always been the person who was given many challenges or great opportunities, as she looks at it. She has always turned lemons into lemonade, no matter how difficult it was to get water and even if she had to process the sugar cane into sugar. For example, she was given a marketing territory that was created from other manager’s territories that had not reached their quota objectives. She received her marketing representatives from other marketing units. Of course other marketing managers do not give up their best employees. Therefore what she had was a non-revenue producing territory, and what was believed to be a mediocre marketing team. However, she turned lemons into lemonade. She led by example, hard work, discipline, honesty and listening to the customers. Because of these traits, her marketing unit ended the year #1 and she was marketing manager of the year. She promoted the members of her team and received awards for three of her nine employees. She was told to fire one female marketing representative, but Ms Andrews decided to work with her to achieve her quota through her leadership.
Ms. Andrews was promoted at IBM, as a marketing training director in Atlanta. She then moved to Connecticut as the only black female branch manager executive on the east coast with IBM. Again she was given the of a “made up” territory from two other branch units in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ms. Andrews always believed in learning from successful individuals. She started a seminar business called Promotion Success, Inc., while at IBM in New Jersey. These day long seminars used successful individuals to motivate the attendants to reach their goals. Over 20 speakers taught on personal development, business, corporate and interpersonal success. Her motto is. “reach up, reach out and reach within to setup, get out and get it done.”
In 1998, Ms. Andrews incorporated a Home Health Agency. Her dream was to pay under privileged, dedicated employees higher than industry average wages. She wanted her employees to experience a higher quality of life. She wanted to give back to the black and underclass community. Immediately she started a patient fund to assist home health patients to obtain their medicines and pay their utilities. Many patients’ medicines cost up to $500 per month. Their social security checks may only be $500 to $600 a month. This leaves the very sick, elderly patients with a challenging decision. These patients sometimes have to make a decision between food and medicine. Ms. Andrews spearheaded car washes, fashion shows and bake sales to assist patients with medication, utilities and other necessities or Ms. Andrews paid money for their medicine with her own money.
Ms. Andrews currently owns two home health agencies, Home Health Solutions, LLC and Healthy Care, LLC. Even after the major shakedown in the home health industry in 1999, Ms. Andrews was able to not only survive but grow in this touch environment. She is listed as the 8th largest women owned business in Baton Rouge with approximately 85 employees.
Ms. Andrews believes education is the key to success. She has a bachelor of science in mathematics. She attended Our Lady of the Lake College in 1998, and completed all course work for nursing with a 4.0 GPA. She was accepted in nursing school but declined because of the day time courses. Then in 1999, she started her MBA at the University of Phoenix. She completed that course work with a 3.90 GPA in December 2000.
Ms. Andrews moved to Baton Rouge to care for her mother who recently passed away. She is currently working on the sequel to Third Man Out. Ms. Andrews' newest venture is a copyrighted product line, “Gumbo For the Heart” which includes motivational calendars, posters and bookmarks. She is currently developing an inspirational book of her quotes entitled Gumbo For the Heart, which will be avaliable for purchase at Amazon.com in January 2010. A portion of the proceeds from her calendar is donated to her patient fund. This is another way she gives back to the community. The website, gumbofortheheart.net has been developed for online purchases of her products and information on other ventures.
Ms. Andrews is quite a role model and an inspiration to other young women. She has creativity, talent, brains, energy, and is very spiritual. She believes God has always carried her at her lowest moments. Her desire is to broaden people’s lives by positive experiences. For that reason she has started Promoting Success Consulting again.
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