The I/DD Provider Startup Guide

Get experienced Delegating Nurse support for your Maryland assisted living facility with Annette Dhannie, RN, DN/CM.

This service is designed for assisted living owners and operators who need professional nursing oversight, medication delegation support, resident assessments, and clinical guidance to help maintain safe, organized, compliant operations.

Delegating Nurse Services may include:

- Resident nursing assessments and ongoing clinical review

- Medication management and delegation oversight

- Medication Technician oversight and guidance

- Review and support of resident care plans

- Staff delegation, instruction, and clinical oversight

- Medication documentation review

- Coordination with physicians, pharmacies, families, and other healthcare providers when appropriate

- Clinical documentation and compliance support

- Guidance for changes in resident condition

- Ongoing support for assisted living management and staff

Service Rate: $300

Whether you're opening a new assisted living home or need additional nursing support for an existing facility, Annette provides experienced, hands-on guidance to help your team confidently manage resident care responsibilities.

Brought to you by Annette Dhannie, RN, DN/CM — Phoenix Healthcare Learning Center.

Exact services, frequency of visits, and responsibilities are established based on the facility's needs, applicable Maryland requirements, and the Delegating Nurse service agreement.

Grants, Partnerships, Seller Financing & Every Real Way to Fund Your Business

You have the vision. Now you need the capital to make it real.

One of the biggest reasons senior care entrepreneurs stay stuck is simple: they know how to start the business, but they don’t know how to fund it, acquire property, expand it, or structure deals without depending entirely on their own savings or a traditional bank loan.

Senior Care Capital was created to change that.

This book takes you beyond basic startup advice and into the financial strategies that can help you launch, acquire, grow, and scale a serious senior care business.

Whether you're working toward your first home care agency, assisted living home, group home, placement business, or senior care facility, this book will help you understand how entrepreneurs think about capital differently.

You’ll discover practical strategies for:

Finding and evaluating grants and alternative funding opportunities

Building partnerships with people who bring capital, credit, expertise, property, or operational resources

Structuring investor relationships more strategically

Understanding seller financing and creative acquisition structures

Purchasing or taking over existing senior care businesses and facilities

Combining multiple funding sources to complete larger projects

Raising capital while protecting your ownership position

Using partnerships to overcome limitations in cash, credit, or experience

Funding occupancy growth, staffing, marketing, expansion, and operations

Building equity and creating long-term wealth through senior care ownership

This Is Bigger Than Finding a Grant

A lot of entrepreneurs spend months searching for the perfect grant while overlooking the capital that may already be available through partnerships, investors, property owners, sellers, strategic relationships, and creative deal structures.

This book teaches you to stop thinking:

“How am I going to afford this?”

…and start asking:

“How can this deal be structured?”

That shift can completely change the way you approach business.

Built for Senior Care Entrepreneurs

This isn't generic business-financing information.

Senior Care Capital is written specifically for entrepreneurs building businesses in the senior care industry—where real estate, licensing, staffing, occupancy, acquisitions, cash flow, and referral relationships all intersect.

You’ll learn how to think like an operator, dealmaker, and business owner, not simply someone trying to qualify for another loan.

Perfect For

Home Care Agency Owners • Assisted Living Operators • Group Home Owners • Senior Placement Entrepreneurs • Aspiring Senior Care Owners • Existing Operators Ready to Expand • Entrepreneurs Looking to Acquire Facilities

Real Capital. Real Partnerships. Real Opportunity.

Your credit score should not be the only thing determining how big your vision can become.

Your ability to build relationships, structure opportunities, leverage resources, create value, and put the right people together can become one of your greatest sources of capital.

Funding is the fuel.

Partnerships are the multiplier.

Legacy is the mission.

If you're serious about building more than just a small senior care business—and you want to understand the strategies that can help you create something scalable, valuable, and lasting—

Senior Care Capital belongs in your business library.

Get Your Copy Today

By Allen Chaney

Stop waiting until you have all the money. Learn how to structure the opportunity.

Allen Chaney lost his mother, his father, and his sister in thirty months. In that same window he went through a divorce, spent months without seeing his kids, and watched his company get cut in half.

He never missed a week of work. Almost none of his clients knew.

This book is what he learned in the years after — why founders manufacture crises when things are calm, why overwork can be an escape hatch, why provision gets mistaken for presence, and what actually helps when you're carrying more than your P&L.

Direct, no filler, written by an operator — not a clinician.

If you're running something while carrying something, this was written for you.

📖 Available now — order your copy below.

I/DD Group Home Startup Coaching Program

Launch Your Own Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Group Home with Expert One-on-One Guidance

Starting an I/DD Group Home is one of the most rewarding opportunities in healthcare—but it's also one of the most regulated. Every state has its own licensing requirements, Medicaid processes, residential standards, staffing expectations, and compliance rules. Trying to figure it out on your own can lead to costly mistakes and unnecessary delays.

Our I/DD Group Home Startup Coaching Program provides personalized, step-by-step guidance to help you successfully launch a compliant, sustainable residential program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Whether you're just exploring the industry or already working on your application, we'll help you navigate the process with confidence.

What's Included

Personalized startup coaching

Business formation guidance (LLC, EIN, and business setup)

State licensing and provider application assistance

Medicaid provider enrollment guidance

Residential property selection and site evaluation

Zoning and licensing preparation

Group home policies and procedures

Operations manual development

Staffing strategy and hiring guidance

Compliance and quality assurance systems

Fire and life safety preparation

Documentation and recordkeeping systems

Referral and marketing strategies

Medicaid billing guidance

Survey and inspection preparation

Ongoing email and coaching support throughout your startup journey

Who This Program Is For

First-time entrepreneurs

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs)

Nurses

Social Workers

Home Care Agency Owners

Assisted Living Operators

Healthcare Professionals

Nonprofit Organizations

Faith-Based Organizations

Anyone passionate about serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Why Work With Allen Chaney?

With years of experience helping entrepreneurs launch healthcare businesses, Allen Chaney provides practical, real-world coaching—not just theory. You'll receive guidance based on proven systems, regulatory best practices, and the operational knowledge needed to build a successful I/DD residential program.

This is more than coaching—it's a partnership focused on helping you build a compliant organization that licensing agencies approve, support coordinators trust, families recommend, and participants are proud to call home.

If you're ready to launch your own I/DD Group Home, we're ready to help you every step of the way.