For Anna Rozenblit-Adler, the grand opening of Countrywide Home Care’s new headquarters is a sweet one.
“We’re growing so much so we needed more office space for our office staff,” she said, noting she jumped at the chance when she saw Bayard’s Chocolate House was available.
In 2019, Bayard’s Chocolates closed permanently after 50 years at the location on Route 70. At the time, Bayard’s owner, the James Candy Company, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, according to reports.
“It’s such a landmark location,” Rozenblit-Adler asserted. “It’s where I used to always love to come as a child that made me feel a sense of family and a sense of home. It was always that Easter bunny outside those big pillars.”
On Oct. 4, Rozenblit-Adler stood before those big pillars with her family not only to cherish those sweet memories, but to also celebrate a new beginning for her growing business.
“We have everything that we thought the community would enjoy,” she said of the crowd behind her. “We have bounce houses, a mechanical bull, a confection stand, we have food, we have the video game truck.
“When we do an event, we think of our community. Our community is not just the client that we provide services to, but it is the hard-working, minimum wage employees that get up every day whether rain, shine, snow, sleet or whatever it may be to provide the care.
“We always try to recognize them and appreciate them and give them the things that they enjoy. That’s why we thought about all these things. They are stopping in and we want them to relax even if it’s for a couple of minutes of the day.”
Countrywide Home Care’s mission is to provide services to clients in their homes assisting them to achieve the highest level of potential in their day-to-day self-care activities, according to its website.
“Our employees work in the fields,” Rozenblit-Adler explained. “Our certified home health aides go to client’s homes and provide care in their homes. The point of services is actually to keep people in the community longer, to prevent hospitalizations and to prevent nursing home stays.
“So we keep people independent as long as possible in their home.”
And hopefully a move to a nursing home does not have to happen.
“Everybody should always have the choice to where they want to pass and many of our clients – even when they have no family and are bed bound – they make the conscious choice to live at home according to their own wants and needs and rules,” Rozenblit-Adler reasoned. “My certified home health aides go to their homes, provide their care so they can remain living independent at home.”
The home health aides assist with bathing, dressing, grooming, walking and moving about, and/or helping with transfers.
“They cook meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner – they help to feed people – keep people clean, change diapers,” Rozenblit-Adler listed. “My aides use hoyer lifts, use hospital beds, they run errands, they do food shopping, laundry, change sheets, things of that nature.”
She noted her staff includes registered nurses who supervise the home health aides throughout the provision of care.
“The home health aides work according to a care plan,” Rosenblit-Adler explained.
At the grand opening, officials from Camden City and Cherry Hill were on hand to commemorate the continued success of Countrywide Home Care as it expands and grows.
Camden also passed a resolution on Oct. 7 recognizing Rozenblit-Adler and Countrywide Home Care.
For Rozenblit-Adler, Countrywide Home Care was a dream come true.
“I have my master’s in social work,” she said. “I always wanted to work with the community.”
Rozenblit-Adler was born in Russia and came to America with her parents as refugees in 1979. As an only child, she dedicates the success at Countrywide to her parents.
“I always just wanted to do more with the community,” she said. “I decided to open up Countrywide Home Care to serve the community better. I saw many home care agencies mistreating clients, not providing the care that they needed.
“In order to keep them independent at home, we decided to do it differently, to do it better, and we have.”
The first office for Countrywide was opened in 2019, and since then, they’ve grown with five locations: Cherry Hill, Pennsauken (its former headquarters), Camden City, Clementon and Vineland.
The business has over 2,000 employees, who are in various locations throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The new headquarters represents Countrywide’s new beginning and will also house the future Countrywide Home Care Association (CHHA) school to help people become certified.
For more information about Countrywide Home Care visit countrywidehomecare.com.
