Etelka was honored as a "Health Care Hero" by the Indianapolis Business Journal. The issue can be read online here:

http://mags.ibj.com/activemagazine/welcome/html/ibjhch.html.

After clicking on the link, then click on the image of the issue's front page. After that, you can browse through the issue or click in a box near the top of your internet browser to adjust the page to 17, which is where Etelka's article appears.

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Etelka recently had a letter to the editor published in the "North Side Topics." She was recognizing nurses for their dedicated service to the health of this nation, in recognition of National Nurses Week.

Home Health Care Needs Medicare Boost

From the Indianapolis Star, Feb. 13, 2006.

by Etelka Froymovich

Hitting a Home Run

How Etelka Froymovich combines the right people and the right motives for success in the home health industry
By Ray Marano

By any standard, Etelka Froymovich, president of Home Services Unlimited Inc., is a business success.

With 230 employees and $10 million in annual revenue, the company she launched in 1997 — her second successful venture in the health care field - is recognized as one of the premier providers of such services in the Indianapolis area...

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The rest of the article, originally published in the December issue of Smart Business Indinapolis, is available on Smart Business Network's Website.

To read it, click here.

Caring for Loved Ones with Alzheimer's
(Story from from the Neighbor2Neighbor NORC News)
by Gabriel Froymovich

Caring for someone with Alzheimer's is particularly challenging because the individual cannot assist with his or her own care and the disease eventually necessitates 24-hour care. Finding outside help can greatly reduce your stress, while ensuring proper care of, and the safety of, your loved one...

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To read the full article and the rest of Neighbor2Neighbor NORC News, click here.

Learning to live without Language
(Story from from the Neighbor2Neighbor NORC News)
by Etelka Froymovich, RN, MHA
President of Home Services Unlimited, Inc.

“I did not have the ability to think about the future, to worry, to anticipate, or to perceive it . . . I simply existed.” These are the words of clinical psychologist Scott Moss, describing being temporarily struck without the power of language after suffering a stroke. According to Moss, being without the power of speech effectively destroyed his power to think in abstract terms; essentially, he was unable to communicate not only with others, but also with himself...

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The article is available in full as the feature for our current newsletter or, in an edited form, as part of NORC News.

To read the full newsletter Neighbor2Neighbor NORC News, click here.