Alabama’s Top Rated Local® Home Health Care Providers Award Winner: Home Instead Senior Care

Top Rated Local® is pleased to announce that Home Instead Senior Care is a 2019 award winner for home health care providers in Alabama!

When you need caring, compassionate home care for yourself or a loved one in Tuscaloosa, you need Home Instead Senior Care.

Home Instead Senior Care has received dozens of reviews from three review sites with an average rating of 4.76 stars, earning them a fantastic Rating Score™ of 93.60 and a 2019 Top Rated Local award for ranking among the top 10 home health care providers in all of Alabama!

Here’s just one of their many five-star reviews:

“I can’t say enough about this wonderful company headed up by Stephanie and Bobby Buffaloe. For the past four years, they have been patient, kind, caring, flexible and, most importantly, reliable with the day-to-day care of my mother. The ladies were always upbeat and helpful. I am forever in their debt.” – Barbara G.

Not Your Average Home Health Care Providers

We sat down with Dr. Stephanie Buffaloe, the owner of the Tuscaloosa Home Instead Senior Care franchise, to find out what makes them different. Here’s what she had to say:

“We are different because we always look at heart more than anything else.”

At Home Instead Senior Care, they believe that when you care about people, it makes everything else falls into place. They don’t see themselves as regular caregivers but as dream managers. And for many seniors, the dream is to stay at home and live out their lives the way they wanted to. The team at Home Instead customizes care plans to make that happen.

Not only have they implemented this approach with their residents, but also with their caregivers:

“We are now looking at their dreams and what is it that they want to accomplish or what is it that they want to do. When you care about people at a deeper level, and it’s not just an employee/employer relationship, it actually shows in their work.”

We also wanted to know why they do what they do at Home Instead Senior Care and how they work to make the world a better place. Here’s what Dr. Buffaloe had to say:

“I think that we’re called to enhance the lives of one another and to encourage each other and build each other up, so I live by that value. Every day, we look at how we make a difference in the lives of others. When you are on a mission from God, everything else falls into place.”

Building Success by Always Getting Better

At Home Instead Senior Care, they are always analyzing their services and changing things up to better serve their clients, and Dr. Buffaloe credits their strong online reputation to those efforts.

Outside of building a powerful online reputation, Home Instead Senior Care has mostly grown through word of mouth. They’ve done some marketing locally, but according to Dr. Buffaloe, it’s really about making connections and being there for the local individuals — they offer continuing education credit for nurses and social workers who refer clients to them.

We asked Dr. Buffaloe what advice she has for the many other business owners out there looking to grow their business and build their online reputation. Here are the words of wisdom she shared with us:

“I think they have to get out there. I think you have to have someone who is educated in search engine optimization. You have to look at the keywords that the people you are targeting are searching. I think target marketing is important…”


Congratulations to the team at Home Instead Senior Care in Tuscaloosa for being a 2019 Top Rated Local award winner, and thank you so much, Dr. Buffaloe, for taking the time to speak with us!

If you’re looking for caring, compassionate home health care for yourself or a loved one in Tuscaloosa, we highly recommend giving Home Instead Senior Care a shot. Visit their website today!

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