Mission    Team

CareMinders^® Home Care , Inc.

CareMinders^® Home Care, Inc. sells franchise businesses that offer companionship, personal, skilled care and related home support services and assistance to all ages of handicapped, convalescing and dependant individuals in their own homes, and when permitted, in nursing homes, hospitals, assisted care facilities and other medical settings.

Our Mission

CareMinders^® Home Care, Inc. strives to be the leading franchisor in the home care industry, with a complete and unwavering focus on assisting our franchisees in the development and sustained growth of a profitable home care business, while maintaining the highest degree of standards with regard to the care and services they provide.

All CareMinders^® Home Care franchisees are independently owned and managed.

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Our Executive Management Team 

The CareMinders^® Home Care, Inc. executive management team consists of a group of individuals who possess the essential characteristics necessary to manage and guide the growth of the company and to successfully achieve our mission.  The backgrounds of the management team include significant achievement and experience in home care, franchising, business development, marketing and sales, technology, and caregiving. These individuals also possess the required stamina, flexibility, creativity, integrity and desire to ensure the long-term success of CareMinders^® Home Care.  The company will continue to recruit management and employees with these same characteristics and also strive to retain the current extraordinary talent. 

Brian L. Schleicher - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Director

Gary Kneller - President and Chief Franchise Development Officer, and Director

Elaine Davis Jones - Executive Vice President - Franchisee Operations, and Director

Karen Bommelje, RN - Vice President of Regulatory Compliance

Edward G. McGuire - Director of Franchise Development

Dr. Rajiv Pandya - Medical Director

Our History

CareMinders^® Home Care began its operation when our President, Gary Kneller, identified the need for a company who could provide extraordinary service in home care.  Due to life experiences as a cancer survivor and dealing with aging parents, Gary recognized there are many home care companies, but none offered the combination of services or the quality he and his family expected.  He was looking for a company he could build a relationship with that could follow his and his family's needs throughout life when various entry points into the healthcare continuum were required.

Gary's skills in finance, economics, marketing and telecommunications would become the business foundation for a new company.  His life-long empathy for people provided the heart of the business and a strong incentive to build something that would help people of all ages and their families.  Gary's decision to build the home care company of his dreams became a reality when he partnered with Brian Schleicher who became the co-founder of CareMinders^® Home Care.

Brian's background as an attorney, CPA and a business owner provided the skills necessary for this exciting new venture as its Chief Executive Officer.  His empathy for people, coupled with his passion for the dream of building a premier home care company, led to his and Gary's desire to expand the dream team of executives for CareMinders^® Home Care. 

With over thirty years experience in all facets of home care, Elaine Davis Jones is recognized as an industry leader. From owning her own Medicare Certified Home Health Agency to managing a multi-unit home care operation with over 600 units nation-wide, Elaine brings a unique perspective to homecare. Having been involved in the industry from its infancy to its current state; providing expert testimony before Congress; being asked to author the textbook, Total Quality Management for Home Care; and having served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, all these experiences gave Elaine the requisite background to become our Executive Vice President - Franchisee Operations for CareMinders^® Home Care.

As the team expanded Karen Bommelje, RN was brought on board to assist franchisees in maneuvering through the many regulatory issues associated with compliance with state and federal regulations.   She brings over 22 years of experience in the home care industry working for a number of national home care agencies where she developed her extensive experience in accreditation, and regulatory compliance issues.

Ed joined our companyin 2009 to assist in franchise sales and development.  He has over 22 years of franchise experience in sales and operations in a number of franchise systems.

To round out our team Dr. Pandya joined the Company as its Medical Director in 2009.  He is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and advises us on issues relating to best medical practices in an effort to keep our quality standards among the highest in the industry.

Together, this group has built a franchise operation for homecare that epitomizes what it means to offer unparalled compassionate quality care, services and support to those most vulnerable in the home setting.

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