Tender Care PPEC Celebrates Multiple Wins in the 2025 Best of Florida Awards
Tender Care provides skilled nursing services in a daycare-like environment.
Tender Care PPEC is proud to announce its recent recognition as a leading healthcare provider in the 2025 Best of Florida Awards. This year, the organization earned top honors in three competitive categories:
Best of Florida Winner – Pediatric Practices
Regional Winner – Specialty Healthcare Providers
Regional Winner – Children’s Therapy Practices
The Best of Florida Awards celebrate excellence across a wide range of industries, with less than ten percent of businesses in the state receiving this distinction. These awards highlight Tender Care PPEC’s continued commitment to providing exceptional pediatric medical and therapy services for medically fragile children.
“We are deeply honored to be recognized by the Best of Florida Awards,” said Thomas LoBianco, Vice President of Tender Care PPEC. “These awards reflect the dedication of our compassionate staff, the trust of our families, and our mission to create a safe, nurturing environment where children with special needs can thrive.”
Tender Care PPEC offers skilled nursing and pediatric therapy in a specialized medical daycare setting designed for children with complex medical needs. With multiple locations across Florida, Tender Care PPEC has become a trusted partner for families seeking high-quality, personalized care for their children.
Tender Care thanks the amazing staff and the families who trust them every day. This recognition celebrates their commitment to providing exceptional care for medically fragile children.
To learn more about Tender Care PPEC and its award-winning services, please visit www.tcms.care
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.
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.