Coming home from the hospital should feel like relief. Instead, it often feels like one more thing to manage. Preferred Care at Home helps patients across Brevard County move from hospital to home with a care team by their side. Recovery gets easier, and families can breathe again.
Brevard County is home to more than 155,000 seniors. Many pass through Health First and Parrish Healthcare facilities each year for surgery, illness, or injury. After a hospital stay, patients are sent home with prescriptions, therapy exercises, and follow-up appointments, all while still healing.
Nationally, about one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. More families run searches for transition care Brevard residents can trust, and our transitional care services exist to change that outcome today.
Preferred Care at Home of Brevard is locally owned by Fred and Taylor Gushue. They built this office around a simple belief: recovering at home is easier when a real person helps carry the load. Our dedicated team includes experienced and trained caregivers, including CNA and HHA professionals, matched to each individual by personality and need.
The first days after discharge determine a lot about how recovery goes. Our care team helps patients settle back into daily living, review discharge instructions, and organize the schedule of appointments and therapy sessions ahead. We coordinate closely with your loved one’s hospital care team so nothing falls through the cracks.
Filling new prescriptions, tracking dosage times, and keeping follow-up visits on the calendar is a lot to manage while still healing. Our caregivers provide reminders and structure so patients stay on track with their recovery plan and their physician’s instructions.
Whether recovering from surgery, an injury, or a hospitalization for chronic illness, mobility often suffers first. Our caregivers provide steady support with movement around the home and help patients get to and from therapy. We encourage the small daily progress that rebuilds strength and confidence.
Many patients return home still managing a chronic condition alongside their recovery. We help track symptoms, maintain routines, and recognize early warning signs, ensuring comfort and ease while providing families peace of mind between doctor visits.
Recovery is not just physical. It’s emotional for the whole family, and it helps to have support that lets adult children return to work and daily life. Families can look forward to holidays and ordinary days together again, instead of managing every detail of care alone.
Step 01
You contact our Brevard office and speak with a local team member who understands what your family is facing.
Step 02
We visit your loved one at home or meet before discharge to understand their condition, routines, and needs.
Step 03
We build a transition care plan around the hospital’s discharge instructions and your family’s schedule.
Step 04
We match your loved one with a caregiver by personality, experience, and the specific support their recovery requires.
Step 05
Care starts as soon as your loved one is discharged, and we stay in touch through regular updates as recovery continues.
Brevard’s Space Coast communities face specific hurdles when a loved one comes home after a hospital stay.
Challenge
What It Looks Like
How We Help
High hospital volume across the Space Coast
What It Looks Like
Health First and Parrish Healthcare serve a growing senior population, and patients often leave with complex instructions.
How We Help
Our care team helps organize discharge instructions and keep therapy and follow-up visits on track.
Challenge
Distance between family and aging parents
What It Looks Like
Adult children living outside Brevard cannot always be present for daily recovery needs.
How We Help
We provide consistent, in-home support so families stay confidently informed from anywhere.
Challenge
Managing illness and injury at the same time
What It Looks Like
Many patients recover from a surgery or injury while also managing a chronic condition.
How We Help
Caregivers monitor routines and changes, and communicate updates to family and physicians.
Challenge
Coordinating multiple appointments and therapy
What It Looks Like
Recovery often means several weekly visits to therapy and specialists across the county.
How We Help
We handle transportation and scheduling so nothing is missed during a critical stretch.
Challenge
Family caregiver burnout after discharge
What It Looks Like
One family member often becomes the sole source of support right when recovery is hardest.
How We Help
We offer flexible respite so families can rest, work, and still show up for their loved one.
Driven by Passion, Committed to Compassion
Fred spent years leading others, first in restaurants, then as a pastor, before watching a caregiver help his own father hold on to his independence late in life. That experience became a calling. He opened Preferred Care at Home of Brevard so families here would have someone who picks up the phone, listens to what they are going through, and helps them find the right answer — treating every family the way he would want his own family treated.
Taylor learned a simple lesson playing baseball all the way to the major leagues: no one wins alone. Every good outcome depends on the people who show up. He lives and works right here on Florida’s Space Coast, personally involved in the day-to-day of this office — matching experienced, trained caregivers, including CNA and HHA professionals, to the people we serve by personality.
We understand that families throughout the Space Coast need reliable support close to home after a hospital stay. We offer flexible scheduling from a few hours a week to around-the-clock living support, so care can grow as recovery needs change.
Transition care, sometimes called transitional care, focuses specifically on the period right after a hospital stay, rehab facility discharge, or serious illness. It combines medication management support, appointment coordination, and hands-on help so patients recover safely at home instead of facing readmission. Regular home care can continue afterward for ongoing companionship and personal support.
About one in five Medicare patients nationally is readmitted within 30 days of discharge, often because instructions are missed or warning signs go unnoticed. Our caregivers help patients follow discharge instructions, track medications, and get to follow-up appointments and therapy on time. That consistency helps determine whether a small problem is caught early or turns into another hospital stay.
Yes. Whether your loved one is recovering from a fall, a joint replacement, or another injury requiring therapy, our caregivers provide mobility support and transportation. We offer encouragement through each stage of healing. We build the care plan around the specific condition and the physician’s recovery goals.
We can often begin care the same day a patient returns home, and in some cases we meet with families before discharge to plan ahead. Call our Brevard office as early as possible so we can have a caregiver ready when your loved one walks through the door.
Our caregivers provide medication reminders and help track dosage schedules, working alongside the instructions provided by your loved one’s physician. We do not administer medication, but we help ensure nothing is missed during a critical recovery window.
We coordinate transportation and scheduling for follow-up visits with physicians, therapists, and specialists connected to the hospital care team. Keeping every appointment is one of the most important parts of avoiding a setback during recovery.
While most of our transition care patients are seniors, we also support younger adults recovering from surgery or illness who need extra help living independently. Need determines eligibility for support, not age alone.
Our caregivers are trained to notice changes in condition and communicate them to family and physicians right away. Catching a change early, before it becomes an emergency, is one of the most valuable parts of transition care.
Cost depends on the hours and level of support your loved one needs during recovery. We provide a free consultation and walk you through pricing with no obligation. Learn more about paying for home care.
Yes. Our Transparency Room portal gives families real-time access to caregiver notes, schedules, and updates from anywhere. You have peace of mind even if you live outside Brevard County.
