Tender Care PPEC Inclusive Breakfast with Santa was a Success!

Tender Care provides skilled nursing services in a daycare-like environment.

OUR BREAKFAST WITH SANTA WAS A SUCCESS! 🎅🎄

What a wonderful morning filled with smiles, laughter, and holiday cheer. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make our Breakfast with Santa such a special and memorable event. Seeing our families, friends, and children come together to celebrate the season truly warmed our hearts. ✨❄️

From enjoying a delicious breakfast to sharing laughs and snapping photos with Santa, this event was all about creating joyful moments in a welcoming and inclusive environment. The excitement on the children’s faces and the sense of togetherness made the morning extra magical.

Event highlights
🥓 We enjoyed 22 pounds of bacon
🥞 We served more than 100 pancakes
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Over 80 guests joined us to celebrate

We are incredibly thankful for our amazing community and for everyone who took the time to attend, support, and celebrate with us. Events like this remind us how special it is to come together and spread joy during the holiday season. We look forward to creating even more memorable moments with you all in the future. ❤️🎄

Tender Care provides care for medically complex and fragile children from birth to 21 years of age in a daycare-like environment staffed with nurses, CNAs, and therapists. We are the first independently owned PPEC in the State of Florida with our initial center opening in 1988. This means we have an abundance of experience and knowledge in providing loving care to this special pediatric population. We have 6 Tender Care PPEC centers throughout Florida, with our newest facility located in Lake Park.

Lake Park Location

Our goal is to enhance the development of each child through collaborative relationships between families, physicians, nurses, and therapists. This holistic approach to care is carried out in an environment that allows the child to engage in social interactions with their peers. This results in thriving children, well-positioned to achieve their greatest potential. We also offer transportation at no cost and provide nutritious meals throughout the day. 

What sets us apart is that we care for and treat every child like family. We have passion in our hearts for our children and a desire to see them succeed.

We are so excited to have a table at this fair and can’t wait to meet all the families that attend.

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PPEC Offers Many Advantages…

To the child/family:

  • Centrally located nursing and therapy decreases intrusions into family dynamics at home
  • Increased socialization with other children
  • Decreased hospitalization
  • Personalized case management ensuring the best care for your child
  • Offers caregivers increased potential to return to work or school
  • Early detection of potential health problems by licensed professionals

To the payer:

  • Decreased hospitalizations through early detection and case management
  • Increased compliance with plan of care resulting in less utilization of health care benefits
  • An average savings of 40% to 50% compared to Home Health services

 

Common pediatric diagnoses that indicate a potential need for daily skilled nursing services:

  • Premature infants diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, apnea of prematurity, oxygen and pulse oximetry dependence
  • Cerebral palsy with gastrostomy or jejunostomy dependence and/or seizures
  • Spina bifida with or without an Arnold Chiari malformation and shunt monitoring, and urinary catheterization dependence
  • Certain cardiac anomalies
  • Post-transplant status
  • Immunosuppressed status
  • Tracheostomy status (with or without ventilator dependence)
  • Failure to thrive
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • History of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
  • Adrenal Insufficiency
  • Presence of a colostomy, ileostomy, urostomy, or vesicostomy

*This is not medical advice, always consult with your child’s doctor before making any changes to their lifestyle. 

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