Comfort of Home Healthcare is locally owned and operated with a combined experience of 15 years in the home care industry. We have been on both ends of the home care industry in providing care in the home and needing care for loved ones. We know what it’s like to find quality help to keep a loved one in the comfort of their home. That’s exactly why Comfort of Home Healthcare exists. Let us help you in your Home Care needs and give you some Comfort of Home when you need it the most.
Comfort of Home Healthcare is uniquely qualified in the field of in home care because of the personal experiences of its owners. Both owners have been on the receiving end of needing in home care for their own families. This experience is what created Comfort of Home Healthcare, and it also brings a level of compassion and commitment that has made Comfort of Home Healthcare into what it is today.
Quite literally, they would not put a caregiver in your home that they would not have in their own home.
Here is their story:
Jason Douglas, Co-Owner
After graduating from Missouri Western State University, Jason worked for a variety of non-profit organizations, in addition to home care agencies.Shortly after Missouri Western, Jason’s father fought a hard battle with cancer.
With the help of family and Hospice, he was able to live out his final days in the comfort of his own home.Several years later Jason’s father-in-law became ill and needed in home care 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The family found it very difficult and frustrating to find quality help in order to keep him at home. The frustration of this experience was the foundation behind wanting to start an in home care agency that did things differently.
Once Jason’s father-in-law passed away, he and his wife moved his mother-in-law into their home so that they could better take care of her. Through the wonderful caregiving from his wife, family and Comfort of Home Healthcare, she was able to live her final days in the loving environment of their home with people who love and care for her the most.
Through many trials and various experiences, the passion to help people stay in their own home runs deep and is in the hearts of his entire family.
Tad Ulmer, Co-Owner
Tad brings a different perspective to Comfort of Home Healthcare, because he has needed 24 hour care 7 days a week for his son in his own home. Sixteen years ago Tad received a phone call every parent has nightmares over, “Come to the hospital, your 15 year old son was in an automobile accident.”
After rushing to the hospital he was informed that his son was unresponsive and in intensive care. Once stable,they informed Tad that his son had suffered severe head trauma and they didn’t know if he was going to make it out of the hospital. Tad’s son eventually stabilized and was somewhat responsive to the environment around him, although it quickly became clear that he had sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury and was going to need personal care for the rest of his life.
Eventually they moved him from the hospital into an institution to take care of his needs. He spent five years in there, until Tad found out that there are programs out there that would allow him to take is son home with 24 hour care. After a year fighting to bring him home, and remodeling his home to make it wheelchair accessible, his son came home and has been there ever since.
Although home, the transition was not as easy as it sounds. Tad still needed to rely on other agencies to provide the care. After trying several agencies out, it became clear that he was going to have to do something about it himself. Thus, another part of the foundation of Comfort of Home Healthcare was established.
Tad brings a high level of commitment to Comfort of Home Healthcare and cares for each and every client as if it were his own.
