Legacy Award honoree

President, CEO and registered nurse Nancy Diller-Shively started Cambridge Home Health Care in 1994 with the belief that people who need assistance with their health care needs should have the dignity and freedom to stay in their own homes instead of entering a nursing home.

The company provides nursing, therapy, home health aide and homemaking services to more than 2,100 people weekly.

As part of Diller-Shively’s mission to give her patients the care they need, all patients are given her home telephone number for their peace of mind.

The company started with two locations and has grown to 24 in Ohio. During the last five years, the company has increased its employee numbers more than 62 percent, the equivalent of 467 jobs since 2001, and grew revenue 60 percent.

Community service is part of the corporate culture at Cambridge Home Health Care. The company funded and built a Habitat for Humanity home in 2001, and over each of the next four years, sponsored or co-sponsored the building of a Habitat home in the Akron area and volunteered to help build each one. Cambridge employees also built a Wizard of Oz-themed playhouse, “There’s no place like home,” in 2005 for a Habitat fundraiser.

The company has made more than $250,000 in contributions to area organizations, including the American Heart Association, Akron Civic Theater, Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens. Diller-Shively also serves on the boards of several area organizations.

She recognizes that to have knowledgeable staff members, she must invest in their education. For the last seven years, her company has provided two nursing scholarships each year to members of the community, as well as two scholarships annually to employees so that they might become nurses.

Cambridge Home Health Care received a Cascade Capital Business Growth Award in 1996, 1997, and each year from 2001 until this year.

HOW TO REACH: Cambridge Home Health Care, (330) 668-1922 or www.cambridgehomehealth.com