It’s always tough to choose a single caregiver of the year out of our many compassionate and dedicated caregivers. This year Joy was nominated for that title from many of her peers and clients. So we’d like to introduce you to our 2023 Caregiver of the Year: Joy Best! We were able to chat with Joy to learn more about her and her passion for caregiving. Caregiver of the Year Q&A Q: I’m here with caregiver of the year, Joy Best today from Freedom Home Care and she was nominated caregiver of the year. We are so excited! One
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Meet Our Newest Employee: Abby Fawks
Freedom Home Care is always looking for more skilled and passionate people to add to our team. Our office staff and health workers are always there to help with your in-home care needs! Last month, we introduced you to three new team members. This month, we have another we’d like you to meet. Welcome Abby Please join us in welcoming Abby Fawks to the Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing team. Abby is working in our Medical Records Department and we are thrilled to have her! Abby graduated from Truman State University and decided to advance her education by
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Meet Our Newest Freedom Employees
Meet Lisa Shenkman Human Resources – Recruiting/On Boarding Specialist Please join us in welcoming Lisa Shenkman to the Freedom Home Care team! Before joining Freedom Home Care, Lisa worked in the industry as a Private Duty Staffing Coordinator for 15 years. Prior to this, she was in healthcare administration for over 20 years, wearing many different hats having started her career as a certified nursing assistant. She soon expanded her medical knowledge by working in emergency ambulance dispatching, then on to medical billing/accounts receivables. But, most of her work was in geriatric and pediatric special needs patient care staffing in
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Manager of the Month: Anna Rosengarden
Congratulations Anna Rosengarden – Our Manager of the Month! Please join us in congratulating Anna Rosengarden, Freedom Home Care’s Manager of the Month! Before joining Freedom, Anna worked in finance. She was a banker and was always on the alert for fraud, particularly on behalf of seniors. She wanted to make sure they had someone watching out for them. She attributes her caring and nurturing nature to her childhood and always wanting to help people. This became especially evident when her mother became sick and Anna was by her side helping her get better. It was then that she realized
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Manager of the Month: Jaime Clifton
Congratulations Jaime Clifton – Our Manager of the Month! Please join us in congratulating our Manager of the Month, Jaime Clifton, Freedom Home Care’s Client Services Director! Jaime has been with Freedom for the last 7 years and we are so fortunate to have her on our team. After graduating high school, Jaime decided to enroll in a program to become a Certified Nursing Assistant ( CNA). She attended CNA courses at the College of Lake County and has been a CNA for well over 20 years. After she completed her CNA courses, Jaime continued her education and completed the
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Manager of the Month: Patti Cannella
Congratulations Patti Cannella – Our Manager of the Month! Patti has been with Freedom Home Care for 25 years as our Staffing Director. She began her career working at Dun and Bradstreet, switched gears to work at Excellcare, and then came to Freedom Home Care (lucky us!) She has two wonderful sons; Alexander who is 27 years old and Christopher who is 24 years old. Her husband, Rick, is the love of her life. They have been together for 16 years and married for 10. She loves dogs and has a German Shepherd, Major, who is 8 years old and
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How to Show Your Caregivers You Care
Caregiver Appreciation Day Goes Beyond a Single Day Caregivers support our society as a whole in so many ways and often get overlooked. While caregiver appreciation day was earlier this month, it is important that support and appreciation is shown for the caregivers in our lives year round and often. Believe it or not, 29% of the U.S. population, that means over 65 million Americans are caregivers in some way. While both paid and unpaid caregivers should be appreciated, it is important to call out that, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are over 40 million Americans who
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Meet The Clients: Robert Jones
Robert Jones is a very prolific and talented client of ours! We recently got to sit down with him and hear his life story, which was fascinating. An Entertainer It turns out that Robert is a bit of a local celebrity! He was the original Ronald McDonald of Illinois. He loves bringing smiles to the faces of children. Robert’s general advice to younger people is to “follow your bliss”. He wants everyone to follow their dreams and find their happiness. A Writer Robert is an author who started writing when he was 12 years old. He was published in multiple
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How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Struggling to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions The new year can often start out strong when we make a lot of highly aspirational goals for ourselves, but then it’s right around the end of January and the beginning of February that we lose steam. While the end of the year is a perfect time to wind down and examine how the previous year has gone, the idea of a fresh start sometimes turns our goal making too lofty. Sticking to your goals is important, you made these resolutions for a good reason in the first place. Often times we are
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Manager of the Month: Jenanne Rock
“Hello!!! I’m so excited to be able to start to share more information with you all….on the team at Freedom Home Care! Thanks to our all our amazing staff (YOU) our caregivers and nurses and the dedicated office staff that supports our day to day business we are growing and have experienced an amazing 26 years in business. When I started at Freedom Home Care 16 years ago, there were 5 of us working out of a house. We all answered phones, staffed cases, met with clients, interviewed, hired staff and marketed our own successes. Licensure did not even exist
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