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Home Care ULittle Decisions That Had the Most Outsized Impact on His Business (Kunu Kaushal Pt. 2)Kunu Kaushal returns to break down a handful of seemingly small decisions that he’s made, that have actually had a huge impact on his business—be prepared for some surprises.Enjoying the show? Send me a text and let me know!Learn more about Careswitch at: careswitch.comConnect with the host on LinkedIn: Miriam Allred This episode was produced by parkerkane.co2024-04-011h 11Home Care USome Big Mistakes He Made—And What He’d Do Differently (Kunu Kaushal Pt. 1)Ever wanted to hear a few vulnerable mistakes made by a wildly successful leader in home care? Well, here’s your chance. Kunu Kaushal, Founder and CEO of Senior Solutions in Tennessee, will share some distinct mistakes he’s made along the way and what he’d do differently if he could go back.Enjoying the show? Send me a text and let me know!Learn more about Careswitch at: careswitch.comConnect with the host on LinkedIn: Miriam Allred This episode was produced by parkerkane.co2024-03-251h 03
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 1: Independent Home Care Alliance Industry Insights With Kunu KaushalThe purpose of IHCA Industry Insights is to connect you with resources and strengthen the entire home care industry by specifically focusing on empowering independent non-franchise home care companies. In this episode, Kunu, shares about what's been recently happening in the industry and what is on the horizon. He'll touch on latest tech trends, resources, legal, human capital management.2022-07-0750 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 2: Independent Home Care Alliance Industry Insights with Kunu KaushalThe purpose of IHCA Industry Insights is to connect you with resources and strengthen the entire home care industry by specifically focusing on empowering independent non-franchise home care companies. In this episode, Kunu, shares about what's been recently happening in the industry and what is on the horizon. He'll touch on latest tech trends, resources, legal, human capital management.2022-07-0728 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 3: Independent Home Care Alliance Industry Insights with Kunu Kaushalwww.indhca.org IHCA is on a mission to further professionalize the caregiving industry! There are many validators showcasing the ever increasing importance of non-medical care services. Who should own the relationship with the care recipient? Be the care navigator for families.Home Care can "be the hub" for care resources in addition to their service offerings.2022-07-0739 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 4: Independent Home Care Alliance Industry Insights with Kunu Kaushalwww.indhca.org IHCA is on a mission to further professionalize the caregiving industry! There are many validators showcasing the ever increasing importance of non-medical care services. Who should own the relationship with the care recipient? Be the care navigator for families.Home Care can "be the hub" for care resources in addition to their service offerings.2022-07-0734 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 5: Independent Home Care Alliance Industry Insights with Kunu KaushalKunu Kaushal is the Founder & CEO of Senior Solutions, Founder of the Independent Home Care Alliance (IHCA), and Past President of the Tennessee Association for Home Care (TAHC). With his grandparents as his first clients, he opened Senior Solutions in 2010, and in its 10+ years of operation, the company has added service lines in transportation, nutrition, care management, transition services, and veteran care solutions, all while expanding to 20+ offices, all 95 counties in Tennessee, and the metro Atlanta, Georgia area.Kunu recognized a need for independent non-franchise home care company owners and operators to have a safe place in w...2022-07-0726 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 2, Episode 4 IHCA Member Moments: Alex Chamberlain, CEO of EasyLiving Home Care & Care ManagementIndependent Home Care Alliance Member Moments: Alex Chamberlain, CEO of EasyLiving Home Care & Care Management. https://www.easylivingfl.com/Independent non-franchise home care owners and operators encouraging, empowering, and elevating their peers through shared best practices, lessons learned, and words of wisdom.EasyLiving Home Care & Care Management has over 20 years’ experience advocating and caring for seniors and their families in Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough Counties in Florida. EasyLiving provides the assistance you want and need to enjoy your life and focus on aging wisely. Many times just a little bit of help in the hom...2022-03-2354 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 2, Episode 3 IHCA Member Moments, Julie Black, Owner of Thrive At HomeIndependent Home Care Alliance Member Moments! Independent non-franchise home care owners and operators encouraging, empowering, and elevating their peers through shared best practices, lessons learned, and words of wisdom. Thrive at Home provides comprehensive in-home care and assistance to seniors living in the Northern Virginia region. They bring care and compassion to wherever the client resides: their private residence, senior living community, skilled nursing facility, or hospital. Below is a summary of the services provided by their trained and experienced caregivers.Bathing and DressingMeal Preparation and FeedingToileting and Incontinence careL...2022-02-2346 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 2, Episode 2 What To Do When You've Drifted Away: 5 Best Practices to Re Group & Re Galvanize2022-02-0934 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 2 Episode 1: Independent Home Care Alliance Member Moments. Mark Bellestri and Carey Lindman of Promise CareIndependent Home Care Alliance Member Moments. Mark Bellestri and Carey Lindman of Promise Care"Independent Home Care Owners Encouraging and Empowering Their Peers"Our MissionCreating and building relationships through compassionate and personalized in-home care.Our VisionPromise Care provides peace of mind, guidance and wellbeing to our community of clients and their families as we strive to be the premier in-home care company of the Twin Cities.Our ValuesINTEGRITY following your moral or ethical convictions and doing the right thing in all circumstances...2022-01-2645 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 7 IHCA Member Moments: Andrew Carlson, Co-Founder, Managing Partner at Home Care Partners of NebraskaIHCA Member Moments: Independent Home Care Company Owners Educating, Encouraging, and Empowering Their Peers. The staff at Home Care Partners of Nebraska have dedicated their professional lives to caring for others and providing them the greatest quality of life, wherever they call home. Their company was built from the ground up to serve with a Culture of Caring for seniors in and around their community, Lincoln, Nebraska. As a long-time professional in "Patient-Centered" care, Andrew Carlson strives to find ways to improve the way we engage with our senior community and anticipate their needs....2021-12-1555 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 6: IHCA Member Moments: Andy Niska, Love In Home Senior CareEpisode 5: IHCA Member Moments: Andy Niska, Love In Home Senior CareIHCA Member Moments: Independent Home Care Company Owners Educating, Encouraging, and Empowering Their Peers. Love In Home Senior Care's mission is to ensure a better quality of life for their elderly clients and their families by providing dependable and affordable care.” They have a vision of creating a compassionate service for seniors and their loved ones when the consideration for personal and companionship care is needed.Love In Home Senior Care feels strongly the importance to edu...2021-12-1050 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 5: IHCA Member Moments, Aaron Stapleton CEO & Founder of Queen City Homcare. "Building a Legacy For Your People and Agency""Building a Legacy For Your People and Agency"Aaron Stapleton is the Founder and CEO of Queen City Homecare. In 2012 he decided to start a new type of private duty company that focused on patient centered care for the clients and not just companionship. With this in mind, he has paved the way for rethinking what private duty care is and how the industry must grow with the needs of its clients. This true family man finds his work incredibly rewarding and sets out every day to produce the best private duty services in town.2021-11-1944 min
Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 4 Home Care Boardroom: How To Build Culture At Your AgencyWhy is organizational culture important, you ask? Your culture impacts everything from performance to how your company is perceived in the community.It defines your company’s internal and external identity. Your organization's culture is the vehicle for living out your company’s core values. Your culture can transform employees into advocates (or critics). A strong organizational culture helps you retain your best people. A well-functioning culture assists with onboarding. Your culture transforms your company into a cohesive team that is invested in the vision. Culture impacts performance and employee wellbeing which directly impacts delivery of service....2021-11-0556 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 3: IHCA Member Moments: JM Simmonds and Michele Woodward Simmonds, Owners of Clear Path Home Care located in TexasThe Independent Home Care Alliance Member Moments: Independent Home Care Company Owners Educating, Encouraging, and Empowering Their Peers. JM Simmonds and Michele Woodward Simmonds, Owners of Clear Path Home Care located in Texas. www.clearpathhomecare.com"Our Mission at Clear Path Home Care is to advance modern solutions to aging and adult care. We are dedicated to providing a compassionate alternative which allows older adults to continue living in their homes."2021-10-2543 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 2: IHCA Member Moments Valerie Darling and Karl Ryder, Presenting 3 P's Of Home Care Plan, Price, PayIndependent Home Care Alliance Member Moments. Independent home care owners educating, encouraging, and empowering their peers. Valerie Darling and Karl Ryder, Presenting "3 P's Of Home Care: Plan, Price, Pay"Valerie is the CEO & Owner of Home Care Matters a private duty home care agency in their 10th year located in Flowery Branch Georgia and Karl Ryder is President of The Ryder Group who has been consulting in the home care industry for 7 years. Valerie and Karl are also the co-founders of a startup Home Care SaaS Technology company called Home Care Quote. www.homecarequote.com2021-10-1533 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Season 1, Episode 1: IHCA Member Moments: Shana Sommer, Founder of Grace Care SolutionsWatch to learn about Shana's background and why she decided to begin an independent home care organization versus buying into a franchise model. She will share her big why behind starting her company and why it's named Grace Care Solutions. She will share what geographic area her business serves and will also share her leadership philosophy and ways of managing stress.IHCA Member Moments: Independent Home Care Company Owners Educating, Encouraging, and Empowering Their Peers. 2021-10-1522 min
Vision | The Care Leaders' PodcastHow to Build an Office Staff Culture that Helps Retain Caregivers, With Kunu KaushalKunu Kaushal, Founder/CEO of Senior Solutions Home Care and Founder of the Independent Home Care Alliance shares his take on providing the right development opportunities for office staff and how office culture radiates into the client/employee experience.2021-10-1240 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!No Home Care Silver Bullets with Stephen TweedThere’s no perfect antidote or “silver bullet” for the struggles we face in the home care industry, but are there some key layups that can get us closer to our goals? Join Kunu and one of the industry’s leading consultants, Stephen Tweed, as they discuss working on your business, using industry trends to measure yourself, recruiting and assuring quality in your caregiver pool, and managing new challenges as your company grows or recovers in 2020 and beyond.2020-11-1955 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Building Growth Mindsets During COVID-19 with Jake FackrellWith the constant chaos we’ve seen in healthcare throughout 2020, how can you maintain a growth mindset and a team that shares it through the toughest obstacles? Join Kunu and Jake Fackrell, Owner of A First Name Basis and 17-year veteran of the home care industry, as they discuss hiring and retaining the right people, nurturing the strengths in your talent pool, and keeping up with a changing healthcare landscape through technological advances.To Watch: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/channel/qb6aj8bv9q2020-10-301h 04Elevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Amplifying Your Strategic Voice with Shelby HiterRunning a solid business that does great work is important, but what happens if no one actually knows about it? How are you communicating with potential customers, partners, and current "fans" to avoid becoming your industry's best kept secret? Join Kunu Kaushal and Senior Solutions Home Care's Communications and Marketing Supervisor, Shelby Hiter, as they discuss communication and digital growth strategy, creating content that speaks to your key audiences, and analyzing your performance for future results.To Watch: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/channel/qb6aj8bv9q2020-08-1956 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Technology in the Home Care Industry with Kody CrottsDoes your home care agency mostly stick to paper, or only use the most basic features of your scheduling and other technologies? Ever wondered what you can do to grow exponentially and establish processes that lessen human error? Join Kunu Kaushal and Kody Crotts as they discuss how technology streamlines processes at a large agency, and more importantly, why they have no intentions of slowing technological growth in the home care space!To Watch: https://sscares.wistia.com/medias/f626lzs5we 2020-08-1753 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!The Intrinsic Value of Independent Home Care with Tim and Melisa McLeodIn an industry that's often dominated by the voices of franchise companies, what is the value in owning and leading an independent home care agency? If you ask Tim and Melisa, the independent value trumps other business models in every step of your business's growth and development! Join Kunu and Tim and Melisa McLeod of McLeod Home Care as they discuss the value of reengineering your business and competing with other strong providers in an independent model, the value in mentorship and collaboration across independent agencies, how you set expectations at all levels of your staff, and so much...2020-08-0452 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Finding the Unicorn with Courtney CarrollFor all of us who live and breathe home care, we know how challenging it can be to find and retain caregivers, let alone "unicorn" caregivers who really get the job done. What can you do to improve your recruitment strategy and truly add value to your team? Join Kunu Kaushal and Courtney Carroll, the Recruitment and Retention Supervisor at Senior Solutions Home Care, as they discuss tips, tricks, and the overall journey to recruiting, training, and retaining the best and brightest caregivers as a growing multi-state provider!To Watch: https://sscares.wistia.com/medias/xbaauwgndd2020-07-1551 minElevate Your Independent Home Care Agency With IHCA!Measuring Your Team as a Manager with Bridget GlissonWhen you first became a manager, what was your top priority? Was it understanding your employees? Was it finding a good team rapport? Was it creating concrete measurables to judge the success of your department? Join Kunu Kaushal and Senior Solutions Home Care's Bridget Glisson as they discuss the hard analytical performance indicators and the soft people skills you need to effectively manage a growing team. To Watch: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/channel/qb6aj8bv9q2020-07-0931 min