The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
‘I missed helping people’
Infinite Helping Hands aims to provide affordable home health care
A Sheffield Village home health care business is emphasizing cheaper rates for clients and better pay for its aides.
“We started the business in May of this year,” said Lisa Price, who owns and operates Infinite Helping Hands with her husband, Tyrone Price. “I’m a nurse and I’ve been an RN for 24 years. I went to Southwest General (hospital) for the last 12 years in the cardiothoracic ICU.
“About 10 years ago, my husband and I started a property preservation business (Infinite Homes and Services) and it started to grow quite a bit. What we do is we go to foreclosed homes for the banks and we submit bids and repair everything that’s needed according to what bids the bank gives us back.”
Price said it got to the point where she had to choose the construction business over working as a nurse.
“I love being a nurse, but it kind of got to the point where I was answering emails for my other business,” she said. “I had to decrease my hours because our construction business got to be so busy.
“I had to make a decision.”
Price said Infinite Helping Hands was formed because she missed the fulfillment she received from working as a nurse.
“I met with a banker at Chemical Bank and started talking about how God led me in another direction,” she said. “I really enjoyed it, but I was really missing being a nurse.
“It felt like a void, but I knew I couldn’t go back and work in the hospital. I did not know what to do.
“I opened an account with Chemical Bank and they sent me checks that said ‘ Infinite Home Care,’ which is not the name of
the business. I kind of felt it was God with a divine intervention. I hadn’t done home care, but I missed helping people.”
Price said this year was the right time to start the business.
“I started talking to my husband and he said ‘ let’s
do this,’” she said. “Right now, is the time because COVID; people want to stay in their homes.
“The other business was doing well, and we needed to put money into this one so we would not be financially strapped. So, we started Infinite Helping
Hands.”
Price said the construction business benefits Helping Hands.
“We already own another business, and we are not a large franchise, so we can charge $6 to $8 less per hour,” she said. “We are also paying our aides a higher wage.
“We charge less and can pay more; that has been a huge benefit for us.”
Price said Helping Hands provides a wide range of services.
“We go into the home if your grandma would need help to get dressed, help take a bath, have someone go to the store for her, or any other way to provide help,” she said. “It’s also to have someone stay with someone who has dementia for a couple of hours while the family goes out.
“It’s a two-hour time block. So far, I’ve been able meet each client when we start, do an assessment and still have that caretaking ability I had from being a nurse. I really enjoy it; it’s been going very well.”
Price said the construction business compliments the home health care business.
“Our construction company is kind of a sister company,” she said. “So, say someone needs a wheelchair ramp built, we’ve partnered with several hospitals in the area and we can go out and do a quote within 24 hours, and we have contractors all throughout the state of Ohio that can go out and give a quote.
“We can build a wheelchair ramp, widen doorways, cut grass, shovel snow, clean gutters ... most home care businesses don’t offer those services.”