Ultimate Care Inc

Ultimate Care, Inc. (UCI) was founded in March 1985 in Florida, USA, by a woman who is a registered nurse (RN) from the Philippines.

The company’s success started when Mrs. Fe Arellano Hanvivatpong, then a head nurse of a health care facility in Boca Raton, Florida, was requested by her facility administrator to go back to her native country to recruit at most three RNs to work in the USA.

Mrs. Hanvivatpong’s trip in June 1987 was a success.

It marked the beginning of many successful recruitment activities that continue to this day, 22 years after, and that involves recruiting medical practitioners from 15 countries around the world.

UCI was initially established so that Mrs. Hanvivatpong and its co-founder, Mrs. Juliet Palang Gejon, can do some part time work as private duty nurses. Mrs. Gejon is also a RN from the Philippines. UCI is a minority-owned company.

However, after the first recruitment trip to the Philippines, the UCI founder decided to leave her post as a head nurse and go full time in the recruitment of foreign-trained RNs to work in Florida. Today, UCI-recruited RNs work in various health care facilities across the USA.

With just six candidate RNs processed for US working visas in 1987, to over 2,500 foreign-trained RNs and other medical professionals today from Asia, Europe, the Caribbean Islands and Africa.

UCI’s recruitment program has expanded to include physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and other allied health care professionals. Eighty-five percent (85%) of these foreign-trained medical professionals are RNs working in various health care facilities in the US.