The Sun's honoring of FutureCare Health and Management as the No. 1 large company on its Top 75 Workplaces is well-deserved. The FutureCare team works hard each day helping Marylanders in their care return to good health.

Working in long-term and rehabilitative care is a stressful, 24-hour, seven day a week job. Care giving is more a calling than a career choice. This honor is a testament to the success of the Attman family and their team's way of putting family first.

This honor also is a reflection on the entire long-term care provider community in Maryland — some 36,000 men and women strong who care for more than 25,000 older, disabled and recovering patients each and every day. With more than $1.5 billion in payroll annually, the long-term and rehabilitative care providers are significant employers in Maryland.

Baltimore has so many great companies — places that are "fun" to work, have traditional work hours, and less stress than long-term care. To know that employees of a company who must work overnight and weekend shifts around the clock and on holidays nominated their company as a best work place and then for The Sun to select FutureCare as No. 1 is truly outstanding!

Joseph DeMattos Jr., Columbia

The writer is president of the Health Facilities Association of Maryland.