Our Story
A trusted resource center, built by operators.
The Care Insider is where care-business owners go to find the templates, policies, toolkits, and training they need — without paying a consultant or guessing on Facebook groups.
Twenty-five years in the family business.
Aaron Payne grew up around the care industry. His mother, Mavis Payne, R.N., opened Mandeville House Assisted Living in Charles County more than two decades ago and built it into one of the county's most respected facilities — learning licensing, staffing, Medicaid, and survey prep the hard way, one deficiency notice at a time. Aaron worked in that operation for years and serves as its Alternate Assisted Living Manager today.
He went on to build and operate two companies of his own:
- Agatha Home Health — a Maryland Residential Service Agency serving older adults and people with disabilities.
- A Good Life Assisted Living — a small-house ALF model focused on dignified, person-centered care.
Between the three businesses, the family has held Maryland licenses across assisted living and home care for 25 years. Aaron is a Certified Medication Technician who has personally delivered the care this platform trains for — and Mavis, a registered nurse, remains The Care Insider's most demanding reviewer.
Across those businesses, Aaron worked through every part of the operation: licensing applications, OHCQ surveys, Medicaid billing, Community Options Waiver, Community First Choice, VA Community Care, staffing and scheduling, payroll, marketing, compliance, and growth.
Why The Care Insider exists.
Most operators we meet — RSA owners, ALF owners, home care entrepreneurs — are learning the same lessons the same hard way. They piece together policy templates from Facebook groups. They guess at staffing ratios. They get blindsided by survey findings nobody told them to expect.
The Care Insider exists to fix that. We sell the systems, templates, and toolkits we built running our own agencies, so the next operator can skip the trial-and-error.
We start with Maryland — that's where the expertise was built. As the platform grows, so will the state coverage.
What you'll find here.
- The Shop — startup kits, policy libraries, compliance toolkits, and operator templates.
- Training Center — caregiver, leadership, compliance, and operations courses (rolling out in stages).
- Free Resources — checklists, worksheets, and PDFs we'd give a friend who was about to open.
- Learn — short, practical guides that answer the questions operators actually ask.
Get in touch.
Questions, partnerships, or want a resource we haven't built yet? Email [email protected].