Assist at House, one of many nation's largest dwelling care suppliers, is increasing its attain within the state of Florida by way of the acquisition of Caregiver Companies Inc.

“After we consider a corporation for a possible acquisition, it is vital that we’ve got a cultural reference to that firm,” Ray Smithberger, chief working officer of Assist at House, informed House Well being Care Information. “CSI is aware of what it takes to be an employer that may domesticate compassionate healthcare employees, and they’re additionally centered on offering high-quality care and being a trusted companion to the state of Florida and their payers within the communities they serve serve.”

Headquartered in Miami, Caring Companies (CSI) has been offering supportive providers to purchasers in communities all through Florida for greater than 40 years.

By way of the acquisition, Assist at House will handle dwelling care providers in these communities, which consist primarily of Medicaid and personal pay populations in 49 counties. CSI has workplaces in West Palm Seaside, Palm Metropolis, Daytona Seaside, Palm Bay, Summerfield, Miami, Coral Springs, Clearwater, Tampa, Fort Meyers, Sarasota and Winter Park.

Assist at House now operates in 9 of Florida's eleven managed long-term providers and helps (MLTSS) areas.

“All this collectively creates a powerful basis for our organizations to serve extra people, with an emphasis on connecting dwelling care with healthcare,” stated Smithberger.

Based in Chicago greater than 50 years in the past, Assist at House's portfolio spans the Midwest, South and East Coasts. Florida has been a state the place the corporate has had a excessive precedence for growth, based on Smithberger.

“It's a long-term managed providers state,” he stated. “Assist at House has efficiently labored with regional and nationwide companions in different states to enhance well being outcomes. We noticed the acquisition of CSI as a significant step to assist us additional broaden our targets to extra folks within the state of Florida.”

Smithberger stated CSI will proceed to function below its present identify whereas the corporate develops a model technique. Nevertheless, they are going to most likely swap to the identify Assist at House sooner or later.

The present CSI management workforce will stay in place.

“We undertake finest practices with each firm we purchase; we’re centered on how we might help extra folks stay independently and with dignity of their houses,” stated Smithberger. “CSI introduced with it a powerful tradition of caring for purchasers, and we stay up for strengthening that by introducing issues like our everlasting hiring mannequin, which can permit us to rent 4,000 caregivers each month within the markets we serve. We’ll then introduce our 24/7 assist mannequin to make sure purchasers and caregivers get the assist they want after they want it.”

With this acquisition, Assist at House added roughly 1,300 caregivers and 1,500 purchasers to its present 60,000 caregivers and 70,000 purchasers in 11 states and greater than 200 places.

“We now have been centered on advancing dwelling care supply past natural and inorganic development, with a metamorphosis journey centered on the eligible inhabitants,” he stated. “Whereas we’re a house and community-based service group, we’ve got the infrastructure and constructed capabilities to handle public well being.”

Smithberger added that Assist at House as a corporation will proceed to broaden its capabilities to nurture the client-caregiver relationship and deal with its development technique, together with additional growth in different markets the place the corporate is rooted, in addition to growth into new states. .

“Our final objective of connecting dwelling care with healthcare focuses on our potential to do extra for extra,” stated Smithberger. “We’ll proceed to broaden in our core markets and new markets equivalent to Florida to place ourselves as a supplier of selection amongst managed care organizations.”