The new company, yet unnamed, merges Kettering Health’s Home Care and InHome Care business with Alternate’s Dayton area operations. This newspaper reported the joint venture a week ago.
Moreover, Alternate expects the combined company will grow and create hiring opportunities, Ganzsarto said in an exclusive interview.
“The reality of it is that they still have the patients they had. We still have the patients that we had,” she said. “Bringing us together creates huge opportunity for not only existing employees there today, but from what we see from just a growth standpoint and the opportunities that we have in the market, it will create new positions.”
Alternate and Kettering Health share ownership of the new company. Plans are to launch the new company sometime in March or April, she said. Alternate will be in charge of day-to-day operations and management.
“We all made a decision it makes a lot more sense for us to come together and be much stronger as one than to try and continue to operate a business separately,” she said.
Alternate Solutions has about 2,500 patients and 600 employees in a service area that touches four states. The deal involves only Alternate’s Dayton-area operations.
Alternate’s corporate office is in Kettering.
Kettering Network Home Care and InHome Care have 160 employees, according to hospital group officials. The home care divisions serve 650 to 750 clients a day on average across a seven-county service area.
Alternate Solutions’s Dayton market service area overlays Kettering Health’s service area, Ganzsarto said.
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