Music Therapy is coming to our Spring Hill and Dunnellon centers!

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

🎶 The Healing Power of Music Is Coming to Our Centers! 🎶

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news that will strike a chord with many in our community, Music Therapy is coming to our Spring Hill and Dunnellon centers! 🎉

Thanks to a new partnership with Soundwave Music Therapy, we’re introducing this powerful, evidence-based therapeutic approach to support the emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being of our clients. 🎵💙

Why Music Therapy?

Music has an extraordinary ability to connect, uplift, and heal. Whether it’s tapping to a rhythm, singing along to a familiar tune, or simply experiencing the calming effects of sound, music therapy creates opportunities for:

  • Emotional expression and release

  • Cognitive stimulation and memory recall

  • Improved motor skills and physical coordination

  • Social connection and communication

Led by certified music therapists from Soundwave, sessions will be tailored to meet individual needs, making music a meaningful part of the healing journey for our children.

What to Expect

Participants in our Spring Hill and Dunnellon centers will soon have access to:

  • Group and one-on-one music therapy sessions

  • Hands-on musical activities

  • A safe, supportive environment to explore creativity and connection

Whether a child is working through trauma, developmental challenges, or simply looking for a new way to engage and grow, music therapy offers a unique path forward.

We’re so excited to bring this new dimension of care to our community, and we can’t wait to see the joy and progress it brings.

🎶 Let the healing begin with music. 🎶

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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