Care Professional Awards & Recognition
At Home Instead®, our success revolves around the work of our Care Professionals – and we make sure they know it! We celebrate Care Pros year-round through: notes of appreciation, recognition in our employee newsletter, flowers, extra time off, and even impromptu office parties.
Our Care Professional of the Year Award
2025 Care Professional of the Year, Maira Frescaz
When Maira walks into a home, the atmosphere changes. There is a calm that follows her. Families exhale. Clients relax. There is a quiet confidence in the way she serves. Not loud, not showy...just steady, faithful care.
At Home Instead, we talk about dignity, respect, and honoring the whole person. Maira doesn’t just understand that mission, she lives it. Every shift. Every client. Every time.
So much of what Maira does will never be posted on social media. It won’t make headlines. But it matters. It matters in the quiet reassurance she offers at 2 p.m. on a hard day. It matters in the gentle way she redirects confusion. It matters in the way she preserves someone’s dignity when they feel most vulnerable.
When families ask for Maira full time, what they’re really saying is this: ‘We trust you with the person we love most.’ That is the highest compliment a caregiver can receive.
We hear the same words over and over: kind, patient, dependable, gentle, consistent. That consistency is rare...and it is priceless.
Skills can be trained. Tasks can be taught. But a servant’s heart, that is something you carry within you. And Maira carries it beautifully.
Caregiving requires strength that doesn’t always look strong. It requires patience on hard days, grace under pressure, and compassion when it would be easier to rush. Maira chooses compassion every time.
Maira, you represent the very best of who we strive to be. You remind us why we do this work. We are not just lucky to have you — we are better because of you
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