When Hector Barragan joined Household Useful resource Dwelling Care as president and COO in December 2022, it was understood he was a part of a succession plan.

Nonetheless, to make sure a clean transition, outgoing CEO Jeff Wiberg needed to verify Barragan might assist the corporate achieve two areas.

“Jeff was actually in search of somebody who would accomplish two issues,” Barragan informed HHCN. “He had constructed an excellent household tradition and he needed to verify it was preserved as a result of he’s very happy with that. However he additionally needed somebody who can assist scale the enterprise, after which mix these two concepts with an excellent efficiency mentality.”

Backed by Nice Level Companions, Household Useful resource Dwelling Care is among the largest independently owned private care firms within the Pacific Northwest. The corporate's providers embrace private care, medicine administration, meal preparation, housekeeping, companionship, dementia help and end-of-life care, transitional and respite care.

Jeff Wiberg, the corporate's founder and former CEO, is shifting his focus to mergers and acquisitions, the corporate introduced. Wiberg may even proceed to carry a place on the corporate's board of administrators.

Barragan informed HHCN that Wiberg plans to spend extra time on charity work and together with his household.

“As a corporation, we began in search of the proper one who would allow me to step again as full-time CEO and we discovered that in Hector,” Wiberg stated in a press release. “In his time at Household Useful resource, he has confirmed to be not solely an efficient chief, but additionally the proper cultural match to proceed the legacy I’ve tried to create at Household Useful resource.”

Lately, Household Useful resource Dwelling Care has continued to broaden its geographic presence within the Pacific Northwest. Underneath Barragan's management, the corporate has no plans to decelerate.

Not too long ago, the corporate Companion Care Inc. acquired a house care company that has expanded Household Useful resource Dwelling Care's footprint to seven places within the Puget Sound area and to 29 whole in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

As the corporate continues to develop, it's necessary that Barragan and the remainder of the management workforce by no means lose sight of what obtained them right here within the first place.

“We’ve to guarantee that we purposefully protect our identification and our tradition,” Barragan stated. “There's this concept that as you develop as an organization, it's simple to lose sight of your DNA and what makes you particular. What makes you particular is commonly what binds folks to the group, so we have now no plans to vary that.”

Barragan believes that any firm that places tradition earlier than margins will succeed over the subsequent 5 years. That's very true in residence well being care, he says, as a result of workers are finally motivated by the standard work they do every single day.

“Tradition is on the forefront of our choices and due to this fact preserving it’s tremendous necessary,” Barragan stated. “That retains folks motivated far more than what drives margins. Dwelling care is finally a enterprise, however I believe generally folks make it too sophisticated. You convey a caregiver right into a shopper's residence and when all of it comes collectively, it's lovely. If an excellent match arises, it’s easy and occurs robotically. For us, we cherish its simplicity.”

One of many few modifications, Barragan famous, will probably be an more and more disciplined method to mergers and acquisitions.

“One of many issues that’s most necessary to scaling successfully is staying disciplined,” he says. “I believe as a workforce we have to be extra superior and learn to do this collectively. We're in search of methods to refine the enterprise as we proceed to scale. Primarily, we wish to probably double the dimensions of the corporate within the coming years. That’s the purpose and that’s the mission.”