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Our member agencies are always free to communicate with any AHI Group members. Your assigned coach/mentor will facilitate weekly calls with other AHI Group members who have been in business for years to help you see what they are doing at their point in their journey. “Empowering, motivational, informative” are some of the words our members use to describe these weekly “Mastermind Calls” with other seasoned AHI Group members.

We sometimes hear home care consultants telling their customers to contact the other home care agency owners they met at their 3-4 day seminar for ongoing support help. We wonder why someone would want to ask another person who is also new to an industry questions about how to solve their day to day problems – that could have far reaching ramifications if handled incorrectly.  Our AHI Group members get an assigned coach/mentor who is a seasoned home care professional who has previously OWNED their own home care business and successfully grown it from the ground up to a multi-million dollar operation. Our coaches are accessible and have a specific post launch program that our members need to follow with milestones.

Yes, we have a state-of-the-art back office cloud enabled HR, scheduling, billing, CRM, telephony, etc. software tool that our members can use. Our AHI Group software is $12 per active client – so you only pay for what you use. We charge NO onboarding/training fee. In addition, we provide 5 one hour LIVE training sessions to teach you how to use the software and learn it quickly and efficiently. Compare this to other software companies that charge flat fees of $150 – $250 per month starting out with a $600+ onboarding/training fee that only provides pre-recorded training where you cannot ask questions in real-time to learn how to use their software.

Our software is a state-of-the-art cloud based software system to run your entire agency from your iphone, ipad, laptop computer: referral tracking, caregiver HR, client scheduling, client profile, caregiver time tracking via GPS on smart phone app, family portal (so family can login and see what has been going on in the home each day), send texts to all caregivers regarding new jobs with one click, and much more!

Save countless hours and reduce the need for a lot of office staff. etc. products. However, at AHI Group, Inc we don’t force you to use our software like a franchise will. YOU get to decide which software product you would like to purchase according to price, functionality, ease of use, etc.

NOTE: Our software is one of the three totally OPTIONAL programs that AHI Group has developed to receive ongoing revenue instead of charging a Royalty on our AHI Group Members income. When AHI Group members get more clients in the software, AHI Group recurring revenue increases. AHI Group is therefore financially motivated to help its members grow their business.

36 states require non medical home care agencies to get licensed before opening their doors for business. AHI will assist you with this process and will fill out your state’s application form and put it in the mail to the licensing board for you. You will be responsible for any filing fee’s (usually around $500 depending on the state). It usually takes 3 months to get a license. The most costly and time consuming states are Florida, Delaware, Maryland, and Georgia. If you live in one of those four states you will need to budget around $2,000 – $3,000 for your state licensing fees and 3-5 months to get through the process.

You will need to create your legal entity (S-Corp or LLC – we will assist you) before applying for your license. An S-Corp or LLC usually takes 4-6 weeks to create in most states. You must receive your “Articles of Incorporation” from your state before your legal entity is officially completed and approved. This means that you will want to put down your deposit with AHI StartupHomeCare 3-4 months before you plan on opening your doors for business to get these tasks completed so you are not waiting on them after you complete your Boot Camp. If your state does not require home care agency licensing you will only need 1-2 months to get your legal entity setup.

However, we recommend you pay your deposit at least 2 months before you want to attend a Boot Camp to ensure you get a seat because we limit the size of our Boot Camps to 10 parties to ensure lots of one-on-one attention. Our Commitment: If any of our members get denied their home care agency license, AHI Group will refund their full up front fee (must pass a background check).

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