Business Owner and “Beyond Driving with Dignity” Professional Wins "Best of Home Care" Award

CANTON, Ohio - Feb. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- Keeping Us Safe is proud to report that Malinda K. Oakes, founder of Attending Angels, LLC, of Uniontown, Ohio, has received the prestigious “Best of Home Care” Award from Home Care Pulse.

This national recognition award is presented to a select number of home care businesses and represents Attending Angels’ accomplishments as one of the top home care providers in North America.

Oakes is distinguished as a Certified Senior Advisor and a Certified Virtual Dementia Tour Facilitator.  In addition, Oakes is certified as one of Keeping Us Safe’s national Certified “Beyond Driving with Dignity” Professionals.

Malinda Oakes

“Malinda and the entire staff of Attending Angels are most deserving of this award” explains Matt Gurwell, founder of Keeping Us Safe.  “Malinda is very dedicated to the mission of providing compassionate and professional care to older adults.  As well, she has personally dedicated herself to preserving her client’s independence and dignity in everything that she does.” Gurwell adds.

The “Best of Home Care” Award is based on scores from several categories, including compassion, work ethic, communication, and training.  Clients and caregivers of the home care agency are given the opportunity to rate the provider in areas such as timeliness of caregivers, services being provided as promised, and overall quality of care.

To qualify for the award, providers such as Attending Angels must first become a Home Care Pulse “Certified” Provider and maintain the “Certified – Trusted Provider” certification for a minimum of six months.  A “Certified – Trusted Provider” is dedicated to providing the highest level of quality, professionalism, and expertise in home care and consistently ranks in the top 50^th national percentile of client and caregiver satisfaction.

“Malinda is a very warm, compassionate and caring person and is very sincere in everything she does.  She is not only an excellent representative of the home care provider industry, but is also an excellent servant of the community.  Keeping Us Safe is most fortunate to also having her serving as one of the Nation’s Certified “Beyond Driving with Dignity” Professionals.” concludes Gurwell.

For additional information, contact Attending Angels at 330-479-3320 or Keeping Us Safe at 216-904-8841.