Issue 6 2019

92 Acquisition International - Issue 6 2019 Oct18446 A Lifetime of Care Professional Healthcare Resources is a family-owned and operated home healthcare and hospice company, which is dedicated to helping clients and patients improve the quality of their lives. ounded in 1994 by Eileen DeCesare, Professional Healthcare Resources now has a team of more than 800 employees and is devoted to offering responsive care with respect, compassion and dignity. Covering the areas of Alexandria, VA, Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, Professional Healthcare Resources can provide assistance with recovery after a recent hospitalisation or illness to help with the activities of daily living, as well as offering a wide range of home health and elderly care solutions, with services that are tailored to the individual patient’s needs. Founder, Eileen DeCesare, touched the lives of many whilst working as a nurse. By setting up Professional Healthcare Resources she has broken down barriers of female entrepreneurship, campaigned the cause for home health care and has become a role model for employees and women throughout the area. Whilst the creation of a successful and profitable company is important, it is the adherence to values such as respect, belief, trust, loyalty, commitment, courage and gratitude that has led Eileen to success over the past 54 years of her professional career. Following her graduation from St. Luke’s School of Nursing in Quezon City, Philippines, Eileen came to the United States in 1964, where she pursued and received a Bachelor of Nursing degree from University of Illinois and Master’s degree in Public Administration-Healthcare Management from DePaul University. In addition to her education credentials, Eileen holds many certifications and advance training credentials, such as Legal Nurse Consultant, Certification in Nursing Administration, Advance by the American Organisation of Nurse Executives and the American Nurses Association as well as a Board certification as Nurse Executive by the American Nurse Credentialing Center. She has served in many successive nursing leadership roles from Cook County Hospital in Chicago to Assistant Director of Nursing for Special Projects at Howard University Hospital, to Deputy Director of Nursing in charge of day-to-day operations and Director of Nursing systems at DC General Hospital. Eileen believes that leaving the world a little better is the definition of success. She has lived that belief as serving as a volunteer and officer in many community and charitable organizations. In 1991 Eileen was named Mrs. Philippines Nation’s Capital, for her fundraising efforts to build a 74-unit Mrs. Philippines Home for the Senior Citizens located in Oxon Hill, Maryland. In 1992 she was part of a relief mission to the Philippines providing assistance to victims of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruptions which devastated vast areas of that country. Mrs. DeCesare has been a member of many professional associations including the American Organization of Nurse Executives, President of the Philippine F Eileen has always been a “nurse’s nurse” and her personal philosophy that patients should always be the top priority led her to home health nursing. Nurses Association of Metropolitan Washington and has served on the Board of Directors of the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) and the Board of Directors for Ecosystems Solutions, Inc. She has testified before the National Institute of Health on Women’s Health and Nursing Issues. Eileen has always been a “nurse’s nurse” and her personal philosophy that patients should always be the top priority led her to home health nursing. Her desire to provide the optimum highest quality of care possible to the patients and her desire to mentor and guide other healthcare professionals to their highest potentials as caring and high calibre professionals have been her driving force in her entire professional career. She wanted to create an organization that empowered its staff to provide skilful and quality care leading to better outcomes and ultimately a better quality of life for the patients it serves.