Stephen Tweed's Private Duty Today wrote a fantastic article entitled Starting a Non-Medical Home Care Company in 10 Steps. It is a comprehensive and insightful look at what to consider, and some Best Practices to implement when starting up a private home care business.

The full article provides a number of useful links and resources that you can use to determine if this type of business is for you, what pittfalls to look out for, and detailed informational content to help you along each of the 10 steps.  

We encourage you to read the full home care startup guide, but here we have listed Stephen's 10 steps for you:

Determine the Structure of Your Business

Create a Business Entity and Meet Licensing Requirements

Develop Your Policies and Procedures

Set Up Your Financial Systems

Recruit and Hire Office Staff

Develop a Recruitment and Retention Plan for Caregivers

Scheduling, Billing, and Time Keeping Systems

Set Up Your Office

Develop Your Sales and Marketing Plan

Measuring the Success of Your Business

If you'd like another resource along your home care start up journey, click below to read a helpful and in-depth guide Ankota created, just click here or the button below to be taken to our Ultimate Guide to Starting a Home Care Agency:

Ultimate Guide to
Starting a Home Care Agency

Ankota provides software to improve the delivery of care outside the hospital, focusing on efficiency and care coordination. Ankota's primary focus is on Care Transitions for Reeadmisison avoidance and on management of Private Duty non-medical home care.

To learn more, please visit www.ankota.com or contact Ankota.