A Pineywoods Home Services Caregiver Named Outstanding Attendant for the REACH Award by United Healthcare
LUFKIN, TX – November 19, 2025 - United Healthcare Community Plan of Texas Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) network celebrates an exceptional attendant through the REACH (Recognizing Excellence in Attendant Care in the Home) Award in each service delivery area. An attendant is a non-medical caregiver who helps individuals with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, and meal preparation to support individuals in a home setting instead of a facility, institution, or isolated setting.
United Healthcare is proud to announce Esther Cartwright as winner of the 2025 Outstanding Attendant REACH Award. Esther, a Special Attendant with A Pineywoods Home Services, was selected from nominations across almost 50 Texas counties. The award honors her consistency in demonstrating exceptional dedication, reliability, performance, and integrity during her 18 years with A Pineywoods Home Services. She continues to showcase her commitment to excellence and is an invaluable asset to her team with her strong values and tireless work ethic.
“Esther represents the core values of A Pineywoods,” said Allison Oliver, Administrator of A Pineywoods Home Services. “Her skill accompanied by unwavering compassion and dedication to meet clients’ needs makes her truly amazing. We are incredibly proud to see her honored with this award to celebrate caregivers who deliver outstanding care to their clients daily.”
About A Pineywoods Home Services
A Pineywoods Home Services is headquartered in Lufkin, TX, providing high-quality, patient-centered care in the comfort of a patient’s home. The team is made up of home health aides, certified nurse aides, and caregivers. They believe in a team approach to assisting patients in improving their quality of life and the ability to live an independent life in the comfort of their home. Care professionals provide assistance with Activities of Daily Living A Pineywoods Home Services is a family-owned and operated agency, serving East Texans for over 30 years.
About United Healthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the health system work better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.7 million physicians and care professionals, and 7,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at uhc.com
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