Vancouver Sun:
t took a troubling personal experience with a home health-care provider 5 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 2 days before, and hadn’t even had an interview. There was no reference check and no criminal record check.’
‘She could have been fabulous, but the company hadn’t even checked up on her. So we [Sim and co-founder John DeHart] researched for 3 months and then launched our company.’
Since then, Nurse Next Door has grown into a business that services more than 1,000 clients in the Lower Mainland, and plans to expand throughout British Columbia - initially in Kelowna, Duncan/Nanaimo, Victoria and Kamloops - by selling franchises. Read more about the ones that won the entrepreneur award 2006.
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