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Your Home Care Site is Turning Away Families at Midnight

If you're running a home care agency, every click to voicemail after 5pm is a family choosing your competitor with live chat.

Service area maps, caregiver directories, care matching, and HIPAA-compliant scheduling portals built for home care agencies serving families across regions.

90%
Caregiver Job Searches Start Online
Recruitment is as important as client acquisition for home care agencies
$20-60K
Build Cost
Full home care website with caregiver recruitment + client inquiry
4-6wk
Timeline
Typical home care agency website build
HIPAA
Intake Design
Contact forms never collect PHI -- intake routed to compliant systems
What Families Actually Need From Your Site -- And What Breaks When It's Missing

A family lands on your site at 9 PM after their parent's hospital discharge. Your site loads. They type their ZIP code into a coverage checker -- it validates in 1.2 seconds, shows the boundary map, lists three caregivers with dementia certifications available Tuesday morning. They upload the discharge paperwork through an encrypted portal, book the first shift, and your intake coordinator gets a Slack ping. That's what your home care site should do. Most don't. They bury service areas in footer text, hide caregiver bios three clicks deep, collect PHI over plain-contact forms that risk $50K HIPAA fines, and force families to call during business hours or lose the lead. We build the sites that match families with caregivers in under four minutes -- with geo-fencing, filterable directories, encrypted document upload, mobile caregiver portals, and automated review collection that drives the local SEO your agency actually needs.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Families can't tell if you serve their ZIP code
Risk: They bounce to a competitor with a service area map in under 10 seconds.
No caregiver profiles means families don't know who's walking into their parent's home
Risk: Trust collapses and intake form completions fall below 2%.
Service packages buried in PDFs -- or missing entirely -- force families to call your office for basic pricing
Risk: That overwhelms your intake team fast.
Without online scheduling, families call during business hours or not at all
Risk: You lose after-hours leads from hospital discharge planners and ER families who can't wait until Monday morning.
Intake forms collecting PHI over plain email or unsecured web forms are a liability
Risk: One HIPAA breach runs $50K–$1.5M in fines, plus the reputational damage that follows.
No care matching means dispatch manually pairs caregivers with clients
Risk: Poor matches drive caregiver turnover and client churn within the first month.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Interactive Service Area Map

Families enter their ZIP code and instantly see whether your agency covers their area. No match? The map points them to the nearest sister agency or partner -- keeping that lead inside your network instead of handing it to a competitor.

Caregiver Profile Directory

Searchable profiles with photos, bios, certifications (CNA, HHA, CPR), specializations, languages spoken, and availability. Families can request specific caregivers by name.

Service Package Breakdown

Structured pages for companion care, personal care, skilled nursing, and therapy. Each package shows descriptions, available hours, and pricing -- hourly, daily, or live-in.

Care Matching Algorithm

Families describe their parent's needs. The system scores available caregivers against those criteria -- skill level, location, availability, language, personality fit -- and surfaces the best matches.

Scheduling Portal

Families pick a caregiver, date, time, duration, and recurring pattern. Confirmations and reminders go out automatically. Caregivers see their schedules on a mobile PWA.

HIPAA-Compliant Intake Forms

Medical history, medication lists, physician contacts, and emergency info submitted through AES-256 encrypted forms. Data stored in Supabase with Row Level Security tied to each individual client record.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Validate ZIP codes in real time so families know you cover their area before they waste time filling intake forms

Families see a boundary map, type their ZIP, and get instant coverage confirmation -- no 10-second competitor bounce

Filter caregivers by certification, language, dementia specialization, and availability windows so families see who's walking through the door

Trust collapses when strangers enter a parent's home -- caregiver profiles with photos and certifications push intake completions above 8%

Encrypt document uploads with virus scanning so insurance cards and physician orders never touch plain email

Your intake team stops drowning in 'how much does this cost' calls because pricing lives on the service page

Display service packages with transparent hourly rates so families stop calling your office for basic pricing questions

Hospital discharge planners and ER families book overnight shifts at 2 AM when your office is dark and competitors don't answer

Block after-hours leads from disappearing into voicemail by letting families book care at 11 PM from a hospital waiting room

One HIPAA breach runs $50K–$1.5M -- encrypted intake portals with automatic PHI scanning keep your agency compliant and insured

Expose poor caregiver-client matches before dispatch assigns them and turnover spikes in the first 30 days

A mobile caregiver app shows schedules, shift notes, and conflict alerts -- cutting manual dispatch errors and the client churn that follows bad matches

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelGoogle Maps APITwilioRow Level SecurityAES-256 Encryption

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Service Area & Requirements Mapping

Week 1

We document your coverage boundaries, service packages, caregiver roster structure, and compliance requirements. You define which features match how your agency actually operates.

02

Architecture & Prototype

Weeks 2-3

We build the geo-fencing logic, directory schema, matching algorithm rules, and intake form encryption. You review interactive prototypes of every family-facing flow before we write a line of production code.

03

Development & HIPAA Implementation

Weeks 4-7

Frontend in Next.js with mobile-first layouts. The backend connects Supabase with RLS policies, encrypted storage, and Twilio for scheduling notifications.

04

Testing & Compliance Audit

Weeks 8-9

We run penetration tests on intake forms, validate HIPAA data handling, test geo-fencing accuracy across your service boundaries, and push Lighthouse scores above 95.

05

Launch & Training

Week 10

The site goes live on Vercel. Your admin team gets hands-on training for the scheduling dashboard, caregiver profile management, and content updates. You've got 30-day post-launch support included.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A family types their ZIP code into an autocomplete field. The system checks it against your service boundary polygons in the database. Match? They get a confirmation and a CTA to start intake. No match? The map surfaces the nearest partner agency in your network — keeping the lead warm instead of sending it straight to a competitor.
Yes. The caregiver directory lets families browse profiles filtered by certification, specialization, language, and availability. Each profile has a photo, bio, experience, and credentials listed. Families can request a specific caregiver during intake. Your admin team confirms the match based on live availability and skill fit before anything gets locked in.
Every form submission is encrypted with AES-256 in transit and at rest. Data lands in Supabase with Row Level Security policies that restrict access per client record — PHI never touches an email server. Audit logging means you can demonstrate compliance during surveys. The architecture supports BAA requirements with your hosting provider.
Families fill out a needs assessment covering their parent's condition, care level, schedule preferences, language needs, and even personality traits. The system runs available caregivers through a weighted rules engine — skill match, proximity, availability overlap, language compatibility. Top matches surface with compatibility scores for your dispatch team to review before anything gets confirmed.
Basic ($8–12K) gets you a professional site with an interactive service area map and encrypted contact forms. Standard ($12–20K) adds the full caregiver directory and family scheduling portal. Premium ($20–30K) brings in care matching algorithms, a secure family portal with visit history, and full HIPAA-compliant medical intake with document uploads.
Basic brochure sites with service area maps ship in 4–5 weeks. Standard builds with caregiver directories and scheduling portals take 7–8 weeks. Premium platforms with care matching, family portals, and HIPAA-compliant intake run 9–10 weeks. Every project includes 30 days of post-launch support for bug fixes, content adjustments, and staff training.
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