Tender Care PPEC Voted Best of the 352 for Best Skilled Nursing 2025!
Tender Care provides skilled nursing services in a daycare-like environment.
Tender Care PPEC Voted Best of the 352 for Best Skilled Nursing 2025!
Tender Care PPEC is proud to be recognized as the Best Skilled Nursing provider in the Best of the 352 awards!
Best of the 352 highlights the top businesses, organizations, and individuals in the Central Florida region. It focuses on those who serve and support the communities within Alachua, Marion, Citrus, Sumter, and Lake counties.
The selection process begins with nominations submitted through the Best of the 352 website. Voting remains open for an extended period, allowing participants to cast a vote once per day. Winners are then announced in The Best of 352 magazine and various other publications.
Awards are given in specific categories, creating a trusted guide for the best services and professionals across Central Florida. The program recognizes two tiers of winners: Gold and Silver.
Tender Care is deeply honored to be chosen in this category. We sincerely thank everyone who voted and acknowledged our team’s dedication to providing exceptional nursing care for medically complex and technologically dependent children.
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.