Tender Care PPEC Best of Florida Nominee 2024 for Children’s Therapy Practices

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Best of Florida 2024 Nominee

Tender Care PPEC is thrilled to be a Best of Florida 2024 nominee for Children’s Therapy Practices!

Best of Florida allows its audience to recognize Florida’s best businesses, organizations, and people.

Throughout the year, people vote for businesses they love in the Best of Florida annual awards. The votes are tabulated and compiled along with The Guide to Florida’s editor’s picks. Winners are organized into three tiers for each industry: Best of Florida, Regional Winner, and Honorable Mention. This results in resources that showcase great businesses across the state.

The Best of Florida winners range from seafood to healthcare, displaying organizations that deserve your attention. You’ll find the best therapies, lawyers, contractors, and more. You can find the winner in print, online, and social media.

Voting is open until July 31st, results get posted on August 14th, and the print release is in October.   

Tender Care is honored to receive this nomination and congratulates all the nominees. Please vote for us here! Voters can cast a vote one time each day. 

Why should my child go to Tender Care PPEC?

Tender Care PPEC 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.

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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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