Entrepreneurs

DeCrescente Distributing Wins President’s Award From Molson Coors For 10th Time

DeCrescente Distributing Co. in Mechanicville has won the Molson Coors President’s Award for the second consecutive year and 10th time overall.

The company is in its 75th year as a family run local beverage distributor.

Only 32 beverage distributors nationwide earn this prestigious award each year. Winning the award twice in two years is uncommon and a testament to the hard work and creativity of the DDC team, said company president C.J. DeCrescente.

“We set a high bar here,” DeCrescente said. “Each year, we create a strategic plan for each of our suppliers to help take their products to new heights. Winning this award proves that our entire team brought their A-Game to help us achieve our ambitious goals for the Molson Coors family of brands in 2022.”

In addition to winning the President’s Award, DeCrescente Distributing is one of seven Molson Coors Founders Award finalists. The award recognizes the nation’s top Molson Coors distributor for exemplary sales and distribution performance over the last year. DeCrescente is the only distributor in the nation to have ever won the Founders Award four consecutive times.

The Founders Award winner will be announced later this year.

In 2020, C.J. DeCrescente was awarded the Molson Coors “Legends” award for his impact on the beverage industry. He followed in the footsteps of his father, Carmine “Carm” DeCrescente Sr., who was named a MillerCoors “Legend” in 2005.

In addition to awards from Molson Coors, DeCrescente Distributing has been named to the Albany Business Review’s “Best Places to Work” list for 13 consecutive years (2010 to 2022). The company was named one of the publication’s “Healthiest Employers” for the past four years (2019 to 2022). In 2021, DeCrescente was named the publication’s “Family-Owned Business of the Year.”

DeCrescente Distributing has also won the first place Fleet Safety Award from the Trucking Association of New York for six consecutive years, 2018 to 2023.

Founded by Angelo DeCrescente in 1948, DDC will celebrate its 75th year in business in June with a series of events for its employees, customers, suppli- ers, and the community.

DDC distributes over 11 million cases of beer, soft drinks, and snacks to 11 counties in the Greater Capital Region, including Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington.

DeCrescente Distributing is a fourth-generation beverage and snack distributor, family owned and operated since 1948. The largest distributor in New York’s Capital Region, DDC has been voted one of the area’s Best Places to Work for 13 consecutive years while employing more than 400 people. DDC distributes 11 million cases of product annually to 11 upstate NY counties. The company has been recognized nationally as both Wholesaler of the Year and Craft Distributor of the Year by beverage industry leaders. For their complete list of products, please go to www.decrescente.com.

For more information on upcoming events, please follow DeCrescente Distributing Company on Facebook or Instagram, or contact communications manager Roberto Cruz at r.cruz@ddcbev.com or 518-539-2035.

ADK Mobile Nurse Services Brings Medical Help To Patients Homes In The Region

BY JILL NAGY

If someone needs a nurse, Lisa Murphy can be there without the patient leaving home. Her Glens Falls-based ADK Mobile Nurse Services provides services in patients’ homes—or wherever else they are—in communities within 60 miles of Glens Falls, including Queensbury, Lake George, Saratoga, Albany, and surrounding locations.

Murphy is a registered nurse with 15 years of hospital experience, including case management, and 10 years as a director of clinical services in long term care and rehabilitation facilities. Her office, at 35 Evergreen Lane, Queensbury, is in a senior living facility.

With hospitals discharging patients earlier and providing less outpatient care, there is a growing need for the kind of care Murphy can provide. She can step in to provide follow-up care after hospital discharge, whether managing medications, changing dressings, helping patients adjust to a new lifestyle, or just looking in to be sure someone is getting along well.

In addition, she administers intravenous vitamin and mineral treatments (on orders from a physician).

Care ranges from a single consultation to continuing care on a monthly retainer basis.

Murphy estimates that she has seen about 100 clients so far. She has been busy enough to cut back on a formerly full-time nursing job. She offers a wide range or services.

“I do what I can within the scope of my practice,” she said. She cannot write prescriptions but she can help patients understand their medications.

When Murphy is unable to provide a service herself, she can often refer a client to someone who can. For example, when someone needed a physical therapist who makes house calls, she was able to find one for the patient. In the future, she said, “I would like to get an arsenal of other professionals” who will provide home services.

Murphy is also a certified Alzheimers educator. She can help arrange a home so that it is safe for someone with dementia. She can also help the patient and family members know what to expect in the future.

She prides herself on giving one-on-one care and taking as much time as it needs.

“I absolutely love it,” she said of her practice and notes that it is far better than trying to divide her time among 40 patients.

In a few weeks, Murphy expects to receive a Masters degree in health care management. She is putting the finishing touches on a thesis entitled Lateral Violence in Health Care, exploring what she sees as a “huge problem worldwide,” not so much physical violence as bullying and harassment. She sees experienced nurses lording it over less experienced colleagues.

The problem seems to be worst in emergency room settings and got significantly worse during the COVID crisis, she said. Nurses are frightened or unsure of themselves and take it out on their colleagues. And there are just not enough nurses to go around. Murphy cited the figure that there will be a shortage of one million nurses in 10 years.

Murphy’s thesis is based on research she did at New England College in New Hampshire, where she also did the clinical rotations that were part of a mostly online program through Aspen University in Colorado.

“I don’t ever want to go to school again,” but predicts that she will change her mind and begin working toward certification as a nurse practitioner. That will allow her to prescribe medications and, equally important, to bill insurance companies for her services.

The service’s webpage is ADKMobileNurseServices.com and the telephone number is 518-9257013.