Kindred Home Care Acquires Helping Hands Group

SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick—Kindred Home Care Inc., an independent homecare provider located in Canada, announced that its local Newfoundland subsidiary, TLC Nursing and Home Care Services Limited (TLC), has acquired the Helping Hands group of companies—comprising Helping Hands Home Care Services Ltd., A Better Living Home Care Inc. and In Home Health Care Services Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The deal continues a period of expansion for Kindred in the province. In April, Kindred entered Newfoundland through its acquisition of TLC, a homecare provider founded in St. John’s in 1973. Just two months later, the addition of the Helping Hands group adds approximately 260 care professionals and more than 360,000 hours of annual homecare. Together with TLC’s existing operations, Kindred now employs approximately 2,300 people across New Brunswick and Newfoundland, delivers nearly 3 million hours of homecare annually and supports approximately 2,100 client families each week.

“When we welcomed TLC into the Kindred family in April, we said we were actively looking for opportunities to grow in Newfoundland—and we meant it,” said Billy English, CEO of Kindred Home Care. “Adding the Helping Hands group just two months later is exactly that: more caregivers, more capacity and deep expertise in 24-hour care that we can now extend to families across the province. This is what building for the long term looks like, and we’re not finished.”

“We built these companies around a simple idea—that people who need round-the-clock care deserve to receive it at home, with dignity and consistency,” said Ian Bailey, owner of the Helping Hands group of companies. “Handing that work to someone else was not a decision I took lightly. In Kindred and TLC, I found an organization that shares those values and has the resources to carry the standard forward, while giving our caregivers and clients an even stronger foundation. I’m confident our families are in good hands.”

Kindred and TLC plan to continue operating with the same care teams and service commitments that Helping Hands clients and caregivers have relied on.