Health care services firm to shut office in North Haven

A Colorado-based company that provides non-emergency medical transportation, home healthcare and nutritional meal delivery is closing its North Haven office in June and laying off 59 people.

ModivCare is closing its office at 127 Washington Ave. in North

Haven on June 1 when its lease expires, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing the company made with the Connecticut Department of Labor on Friday. Of the 59 people who will lose their jobs, 39 work as call center customer service representatives.

Until January of this year, the 20-year-old company was known as Providence Service Corp. It was first based in Stamford and then moved its headquarters to Atlanta before relocating once again to Denver in March of last year.

Daniel Greenleaf, the company’s CEO, told the Denver Business Journal recently that since the start of the pandemic the company has delivered nearly 2 million meals to food-insecure populations around the country. ModivCare also provides about 75 million rides a year to healthcare appointments.

The company has 19,000 employees nationally. ModivCare’s transportation and food delivery services are available in 49 states and its personal home care division operates in seven states.

North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda said the company told state officials they were unable to renew their lease and elected to consolidate their call center elsewhere. The company will have 28 employees, who are not part of the layoffs, handling customer service calls from their homes.