Niche Biz: Nurse Next Door
It took a troubling personal experience with a home health-care provider five years ago to prompt Nurse Next Door co-founder Ken Sim to conclude that homecare for seniors was a great sector in which to start up a business.
“My wife needed emergency bed rest with our first child,” Sim said in an interview.
“We had someone come to our house and we interviewed her. But she informed us that she had faxed her resume to the company just two days before, and hadn’t even had an interview. There was no reference check and no criminal record check.
So we researched for three months and then launched our company. Since then, Nurse Next Door has grown into a business that services more than 1,000 clients.
Sim and partner John DeHart were awarded the 2006 Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award for their efforts in building their company into one of the province’s most recognizable homecare service providers.
Photo by Peter Battistoni.
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