BAYADA Home Health Care, a leading provider of in-home care and support services headquartered in Moorestown and Community Care Center of the Northeast (CCNE), a Philadelphia nonprofit that helps the elderly poor and persons with disabilities age safely in their homes, announced a partnership designed to continue CCNE’s mission-focused services while expanding BAYADA’s multi-specialty home health services to offer high-quality, in-home care to individuals in need.
Under a managed services agreement that became effective on April 1, CCNE will operate as an independent organization and retain its name, brand and office space while tapping into BAYADA’s operational expertise. All CCNE staff will become BAYADA employees, gaining access to BAYADA’s network of more than 28,000 caregivers across 360 offices in 23 states and internationally, and an internal support infrastructure that includes comprehensive educational opportunities, clinical supervision, workflow technologies and recognition programs.
“We are pleased to continue the legacy and mission of CCNE, an organization that will help us to expand the reach of our services to the Medicaid population in southeast Pennsylvania,” said BAYADA CEO David Baiada. “This ensures all CCNE clients can rely on the compassionate care they’ve come to expect, and that CCNE employees will have access to state-of-the-art tools and training that will help them to further grow in their careers.”
Late in 2018, BAYADA Home Health Care transitioned to a nonprofit as part of founder Mark Baiada’s Lasting Legacy succession plan, designed to protect the 44-year-old company from sale and help ensure that BAYADA’s mission, vision, values and beliefs will endure for generations to come.
Mark Baiada’s unprecedented decision—turning his billion-dollar company into a nonprofit instead of keeping it in the family or selling it—caught the attention of CCNE’s founder and director of nursing, Jean E. Langenbach, RN, BSN, who was approaching retirement and had a similar hope for her organization.
“I established CCNE 35 years ago with the ultimate goal that our mission to help underserved populations in the community would continue long after I was gone,” said Langenbach. “Watching Mark Baiada build his lasting legacy around BAYADA’s incredible mission and vision made me feel confident in partnering with an organization that is as dedicated to its employees and its clients as I have been through my career. It will allow me to live out my lasting legacy.”
BAYADA is currently in the process of transitioning roughly 70 employees and their clients to BAYADA’s services, ensuring that all clients are remaining with their current caregivers.
“We made this transition to nonprofit understanding that it would bring with it an opportunity to partner with mission-aligned organizations to help improve health outcomes for those in need,” said David Baiada. “We’re grateful that Jean has entrusted us with her organization and for the opportunity to strengthen the home health care services offered to the community for generations to come.”
