We Take The Health Of Our Elders Seriously

Founded in 2019, Serious Health is an agency that focuses on placing elderly and disabled clients into the personal homes of Nurses to care for their daily needs. We seek a cultural connection in a family-like environment, to increase the satisfaction of both parties, by respecting cultural identity and traditions to provide a sense of familiarity and comfort.

How We Impact The World: 

Create a world where older adults and people of all ages with disabilities can live where they choose, with the people they choose, and with the ability to participate fully in their communities, regardless of financial status. 

Serious Health’s mission is to innovate access and improve the quality of care within our most vulnerable communities.

Serious Health fulfills our mission through the creation of a high-quality eldercare ecosystem that celebrates uniqueness of each individual and recognizes them as ‘kin’. 

Our Work

Serious Health growth has been fueled by focusing on matching the right patients with the right nurses.



As Serious Health began to recruit more nurses, they discovered that, because the need was so great, we could customize matching patients and providers into homes where nurses could have the most impact (i.e., treating autism vs. musculoskeletal vs. cognitive conditions) and have individuals within their own homes and communities that they had never met, but enjoy a shared culture. Communication, music choices, food types, and other variables created spaces where everyone was cared for and felt right at home.

Services include, but are not limited to, hands-on assistance, supervision, medication management, transportation, food preparation, appointment setting, community fun, and other support intended to help the individual exercise choices. The goal of integrating the clients into a family experience and providing individualized services that support each resident’s independence and integration into the overall community is being realized.

Choice and control matter, whether it is access to affordable and accessible housing or a ride to the doctor’s office. People with disabilities want meaningful choices that respect their desire for safety and security and the value of their time. This is consistent with the vital role of person-centered planning, which prioritizes the goals and wishes of the end user of goods and services rather than the choices offered by a provider or care planner.

If the investment for utilization of pre-screening to match executives to the best temporary career placement is viable, surely the same can be said for the lifelong placement of disabled individuals. By creating questions for both the potential clients and nurses aimed and reaching the best behavioral and physical care matches our clients and nurses can experience greater satisfaction.

Today it is the nation’s largest private, historically black academic health science center. Meharry is one of the nation’s leading producers of African Americans healthcare leaders, having issued more than 5,000 M.D., Ph.D., or D.D.S. degrees to African American students. The university was awarded a grant through the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to create a year-long business incubator, ResilienSEED, to expand innovation and entrepreneurship to underserved communities in which Serious was chosen to participate. Through this yearlong partnership, we learned that we were not just doing the right thing for the LTSS target population, but also positively impacting both their physical and social determinants of health with each right match that we found

Using analytics to expand, scale and optimize this model we now have an opportunity to create a data-driven approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and those who have been historically underserved, marginalized and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality, especially those who live in rural areas.