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Shelli: Hi, I’m Shelli from Anderson & Associates and I have Samantha Cartright here with me today from My Care Finders and she is going to tell us a little bit about the service that they offer for free.
Samantha Cartright: Yes! Thank you, Shelli, for having me. I appreciate it.
Shelli: Great.
Samantha Cartright: So we are a free placement program. We help seniors find independent living, memory care, assisted living at no cost. So just as an idea, there is close to 200 if not more communities in the area that offer independent living, memory care, assisted living. So if you need to find a place for your mom, you would have to drive her around to all these communities or if you go online and enter your information, you are going to have over a hundred people contacting you.
So what we do is we take out all the stress and legwork for you. We for free will take either you or your mom around or we can meet at those locations. And what we do is we tell you, “Hey, is this the location? Is this the price you can afford?” We take a whole – we write down a whole sheet of information …
Shelli: I’m guessing it’s like an intake form.
Samantha Cartright: Yes, exactly. So we have intake form that we do and we figure out location wise, is your family here in Palmetto? Is your family in Bradenton? Where do you want to be? Because there are so many options. And we usually come up with two or three to tour you in one day, and if you don’t like those, we keep touring.
And we never had to charge you anything. We are completely transparent. The communities typically pay us a percentage. We are contracted by most of the facilities in the area but what makes us different is we are family-owned and operated so we are truly a family company. We want to do what’s right for you and your family. We are not looking at just the dollar sign.
I’ll be honest. There are cases that we take that are Medicaid cases and we can’t do a whole lot for them but we still help them even though we are not getting paid because we truly want to help them get back to the community whereas they don’t have help and any advice.
So what separates us again from other companies is if you go on to a website and you enter your information, you’re going to have a hundred companies call you.
Shelli: Which is overwhelming in itself.
Samantha Cartright: Oh, absolutely. So we do all that for you. We don’t give out your information. We do all that communicating and contacting.
As an example, I placed a family a couple of weeks ago. The daughter reached back out to me and she says, “Thank you so much. Why didn’t I know you a couple of weeks ago?
Shelli: Yeah, I’m not going to lie. I mentioned a few weeks ago and before then I was not aware that it was something that was even offered out there. And we do a lot of work with seniors here at our office, so it’s a great service and awesome. I feel really glad that we are able to offer it to our clients as well.
Samantha Cartright: Absolutely. And it’s something where it’s a transition that’s hard for you because you are trying to find your mom a place. It’s hard for her because she is moved from home into somewhere else so it’s a hard transition. We just want to make it easy.
We don’t want you to have to worry about, “Okay, what are the finances that I have to come up with? Or how do I figure out what I can pay? Or where is the location? Is it the right license?” Because so many communities offer different licenses, so she may go to a community that’s not even the right licensure so you would have to transfer her.
Right now, we have a hundred percent retention rate. Anyone we placed has stayed because it has been the right fit. So we have everyone move in and stay because they are happy.
We have also been featured on the Herald-Tribune on the front page twice and it’s just now that people are realizing what we do and who we are, the word is getting out …
Shelli: I would say that’s a couple of great accomplishments. Congratulations on that.
Samantha Cartright: Thank you.
Shelli: And thank you very much for coming in, Samantha.
Samantha Cartright: Thank you.
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