Debbie Johnston

Care Advantage is a full service home health company.

And that means that we have everything from nurse aides that just come in and do a bath, provide companionship, prepare meals, two to 24 hours a day, up to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses that come in and actually do medication things, wound care.

And they're available to 24 hours a day, we also have a skill care division which has physical therapist occupational therapist speech therapist and those folks help you for.

A limited period of time is prescribed by a doctor.

Like if you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement, they will come in and they will help you ambulate until you can do that on your own from your home.

No, we have little pink houses all over the state.

no it's normally by the hour um or we find you your own person that you can hire um we do both things but it runs about for a companion cna about twenty dollars an hour wow okay that's that's that's great um is that subsidy i mean it sounds like a program like this might be subsidized do you kind of have subsidies from kind of state or local or federal governments

We are reimbursed by the state through Medicaid.

And we accept third-party payers.

And of course, Medicare covers most of our skill care services.

You know, honestly, we don't do a lot through Obamacare.

Okay.

But I'm going to tell you this, no matter what kind of care comes down the pike, we know that home care is always going to be the least expensive.

And it's the push for facilities to keep people in their home.

So, you know, rain, snow, sleet, Obamacare, Santa Claus care, we're the one.

No, we incur the cost for each location.

Right.

About the business?

Well, you know, I started years ago.

I was...