Where Complex Care Feels Like Home

Finding childcare is stressful enough when the biggest supply list involves diapers and juice boxes. It gets exponentially harder for a parent whose child needs a ventilator, a feeding tube, or round-the-clock nursing just to get through an average Tuesday, and finding a facility that treats that need as normal, not extraordinary, can feel like searching for a unicorn. Learning Tree PPEC, tucked into a Michigan Street building in Orlando, exists to be exactly that unicorn.

Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care, or PPEC, is medical day care built specifically for kids with complex conditions such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, tracheostomies, feeding tubes, and other diagnoses that usually mean a parent quits a job or hires a small army of specialists just to get through the week. At Learning Tree PPEC, kids up to age 21 can spend up to twelve hours a day getting skilled nursing care and physical and developmental therapy, fully covered by Medicaid, while free transportation handles the part everyone dreads most: the actual getting there. None of it feels clinical in the sterile sense. The staff runs the place like an extended family that happens to know its way around a ventilator, which is precisely the combination most parents didn't know they were allowed to hope for.

That combination is baked right into the name, a place built to be “Your Home Away From Home” for kids who've spent enough time feeling like patients instead of children. It's also, apparently, obvious to more than just the families who show up every morning: Learning Tree PPEC just earned their 2026 Best of Florida Regional Award. For a parent still searching for that unicorn, this is where the search can finally end.

Contact Information:

Company Name: Learning Tree PPEC

Phone: 407-336-7732

Address: 345 West Michigan Street, Suite 100, Orlando, FL 32806

Website: flppec.com