About Preferred
Preferred utilizes proven objective benchmarks to measure your progress. Preferred is Medicare and Medicaid certified and meets state licensure requirements for home health care. In an effort to ensure the best care possible we have become a Character First Company. We hire based on Character, Chemistry and Competency.
Preferred caregivers are skilled professionals with many years of service and dedication to nursing and therapy. They adhere to strict codes of performance to provide the finest quality of care to you in your own home.
Preferred, with a desire to serve, has attracted a select group of nurses, therapist, and home health aides for the right reasons; we sincerely want to help you maintain a healthy and independent lifestyle. Our services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Jackie L. Steuerwald: Owner, President and Chief Executive Officer
Denise Schrock: Chief Financial Officer
Cathy Nix: Director of Human Resources
Robert Lee: Director of Information Technology
Jordan Gorgievski: Director of Business Development
Home Health Care:
It is no longer necessary for you to relinquish your independence or control of your family to get the kind of health care you need. Now, through advanced health care technology, home health care professionals are able to bring quality medical care directly to your home.
With the many changes in health care today, recovery and rehabilitation are being shifted to an outpatient setting. With shorter hospital stays, home health care is a cost-effective way to deliver quality health care in the comfort and familiar setting of your own home. The truth is that in familiar surroundings recovery is actually quicker and costs are minimized. At the same time, home health care preserves your self-esteem and dignity and your family suffers less anxiety.
Service Provided: Top↑
Skilled Nursing (RN's and LPN's)
Our Nurses provide maximum professional care:
- Observation and assessment
- Catheter care
- Wound care and dressings
- Injections
- Intraveneous therapy
- Tube feedings and care
- Ostomy care and teaching
- Diabetic care and teaching
- Disease process education
- Post Stroke care
- Hypertension, CHF and Emphysema(COPD) care
- Medication Management
Home Health Aides
Our Home Health Aides provide personal care such as:
- Bathing and dressing
- Reminders to take medications
- Assistance with walking
- Assistance with getting in and out of bed including the use of a hoyer life
- Light housekeeping
- Personal hygiene
- Assistance with exercise
- Shaving and hair care
- Assistance with activities of daily living
Attendants
Attendants can provide the friendship and support so important to your emotional well-being. Live-in arrangements are possible if attention is needed on a full-time basis.
Therapists:
Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists are available to provide a variety of rehabilitation services that will enable you to regain your independence as quickly as possible.
Physical Therapy
- Gait training and exercises
- Rehabilitation techniques
- Home exercise program
- Strength and endurance training
- Activities of daily living training
- Perceptual and fine motor training
- Splinting
- Adaptive equipment
- Wound debridement
Occupational Therapy
- Activities of daily living training
- Perceptual and fine motor training
- Strength and endurance training
- Splinting
- Adaptive equipment
- Home Safety Evaluation
Speech Therapy
- Voice disorder treatments
- Speech articulation i.e. after a stroke
- Dysphagia and swallowing treatments
- Language disorders
Medical Social Worker
Helping you access community resources, our Medical Social Worker can provide counseling for social, emotional, and financial burdens that are effecting your recovery.
- Home assessment
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Identify problems impeding plan of care
- Resolves problems and makes referrals to appropriate resources
- Referral to community support groups for family and caregivers
- Entitlement, food assistance and financial counseling
- Spiritual support and professional counseling referrals
Chaplains
Experienced, non denominational Chaplains can provide prayer, communion, counseling, and other related ministries for your spiritual well-being. Our Chaplains have the call of God upon their lives to proclaim the Good News with signs and wonders following. They believe in the power of God's Word and His promise to restore your joy, peace, and hope that is so critical to your recovery.
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Preferred's Customer Service Philosophy
To exceed our Customers' Expectations
Preferred's Motto
To honor others above ourselves.
Vision
To be an internationally known and respected agency of quality health care.
Mission
The primary mission of Preferred is to be a Christian dedicated provider of quality health care. Our goal is to fulfill the needs of the communities we serve by providing a variety of health care services.
Preferred is dedicated to the highest levels of integrity and professionalism. We strive to insure our employees the opportunity for personal growth, job security, and the ability to share in the success of the company as God works through us.
The Attitude that built Preferred
We will do whatever it takes with whatever we have without grumbling or complaining.
We hire for:
Character, Chemistry, and Competency