Nightingale’s Nursing

Nightingale’s was founded in 2001 and we accepted our first contract in 2002, but the ideafor Nightingale’s began in the living room on a computer, generating ideas for improving the quality of care in the homes of South Carolina. In the first month we admitted 35 clients and continued to focus on training employees while the owner, Gloria Kasler, RN, performed all the admissions, ensuring excellent customer service and using her critical care and home health background to establish superior care plans with well-trained employees. Her daughter, Brandy Strong, oversaw the service coordination and was the smiling voice behind the many phone calls required to connect the right clients with the right SC home caregivers!

As Nightingale’s grew, we needed a second office in Camden. In 2007, Kasler’s youngest daughter, Babbette Yates, joined the company and soon after, another office was needed to assist clients in Charleston, where we were well-received and eventually accepted nearly 35% of the Community Long Term Care market within our first year there. Most recently, a Myrtle Beach office was added, and most recently a branch has been established in Greenville!

We continue to provide both aides, as well as skilled private duty nurses, both RN and LPN. Over the last several years, we have increased our RN involvement with medically complex pediatric needs to help bring babies home from the hospital. Under Governor Sanford’s term in office, a transparency website was established to show where funding is spent and it was through the technology that we learned we had become the largest Community Long Term Care provider in South Carolina.

We contribute our growth to the goodwill that is passed through word of mouth among our exceptional employees and our precious clients, along with many hours of dedicated service, concern for the welfare of others, and the trust placed in God the Father to lead us along the right path, protect us from harm, allow us to be a positive influence on everyone we come in contact with, and use His grace of wisdom and a discerning heart to choose those we work with carefully and according to His will.