The Kadan Caregiving Family
Kadan provides high-quality, personalized home care through a team of experienced and dedicated staff, emphasizing a family-like approach and a collaborative service model.
The Kadan Caregiving Family
Our goal is to care for your family like only a family can. With experience in homecare, nursing and social services, the Kadan team works collaboratively to ensure each client and their families are receiving the highest quality of care and unparalleled customer service.
The biggest difference between Kadan Homecare and other home care companies is our talented team of caregivers. Our team of 300+ caregivers are carefully selected and thoroughly trained to ensure that you and your loved ones are in safe, caring and capable hands. For them, caring for others is more than a job – it’s their passion.
Meet our Administrative Team
Sonita Dickerson, RN
Clinical Coordinator
Lisa Young Grant
Employee Relations Coordinator
Heather Gutekunst
Client Experience Manager
Sophia Jones
Client Experience Manager
Kahloe Lesaca, RN
Partner Relations Manager
Greg Maguire
Director of Business Development
Audrey Miller
First Impressions Coordinator
Hazel Reece
Office Operations Manager
Heather Roberts
Director of Client Experience
Nascine Chung Shelmon
Client Experience Coordinator
Dawn Tumillo, RN
Clinical Coordinator
Jasmine White
Client Experience Coordinator
Casey Young
Director of Employee Relations
Kadan Roles & Responsibilities
How Our Team Works Together to Provide Your Best Care
Client Experience Manager
Your Client Experience Manager is your primary point of contact throughout your care journey. This person is assigned to your case from the beginning and serves as your advocate within Kadan. They communicate with you weekly at minimum and coordinate all aspects of your care. Please direct all questions, concerns, schedule changes and special requests through your Client Experience Manager, who will ensure the appropriate response from anyone associated with your care.
Clinical Coordinator
Your Clinical Coordinator is a Registered Nurse who performs a comprehensive initial assessment to identify your specific needs. Within three days of choosing Kadan, your Clinical Liaison will contact you to develop your personalized care plan. They will review and update this plan every 90 days. If you need to speak with your Clinical Liaison between scheduled reviews, please inform your Client Experience Manager, who will coordinate this for you.
Caregiver
Your Caregiver is the heart of your daily care experience. We carefully match caregivers with clients based on compatible interests, personalities, and needs. Your Caregiver provides the hands-on care outlined in your specific care plan created by the Clinical Liaison. Depending on your care schedule, you may work with multiple caregivers. For consistency of care, please communicate any care plan changes through your Client Experience Manager rather than directly to caregivers, as this ensures all information is properly documented and shared with the entire care team.
Home Care Assistance from Our Family to Yours
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During your complimentary in-home consultation, our registered nurse will sensitively ask questions that enable us to personalize a program and carefully match a caregiver to your loved one’s needs. If you have questions or feel overwhelmed by the decision process, we are happy to use our knowledge and experience to make recommendations and assist you in any way we can. For more information or to talk with our team call 770-396-8997 or email info@kadan.org.
Linda Kadan
“I started this business with a desire to care for families as if they were my own. Thirty years later, I’m incredibly proud to have my family at my side, personally and professionally, as we continue to build a company dedicated to quality in-home care.” – Linda Kadan
As CEO of Kadan Homecare, Linda Kadan’s official role is to develop and implement Kadan’s overall operating strategy and to manage the operations and resources. Unofficially, Kadan considers it her job and her life’s work to help as many seniors as possible live with dignity and independence while giving their families complete peace of mind.
According to Kadan, the highlights of her 25+ year career in the industry have been “successfully doing something I truly love for so many years and meeting so many wonderful clients and caregivers.” When Kadan graduated from Indiana University with a Master of Economics degree, she might not have imagined ending up as the CEO of a leading homecare provider. However, it’s obvious she has found her calling.
Kadan is a member of the National Private Duty Association, the nation’s first association for providers of private duty home care. The NPDA is the recognized resource for information and definition of private duty home care practice. It leads the industry that cares for people at home through education and advocacy.
Dina Kadan White
Dina oversees the day-to-to day operations and assists with strategic planning for the company. She has worked with Kadan full-time for the past 11 years, although she has been engaged with the family-run firm at some level for most of her adult life.
Prior to joining Kadan, White served as Director of Product Development at Equifax and previously was a Marketing Director with Wachovia. These jobs prepared her well for a position where she works for the benefit of all involved of this highly client-focused agency.
Dina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Private Duty Association, a membership organization for firms whose homecare model is to employ, train, monitor and supervise caregivers, create a plan of care for the client and work toward a safe and secure environment for the person at home. White is also a member of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice.
Sonita Dickerson
Sonita is one of Kadan’s registered nurses and responsible for client intake assessments and supervisory visits. She creates plans of care for caregivers to follow and conducts employee training.
Sonita has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, BLS, ACLS and joined us after working with WellStar. She is a member of the ANA-American Nurses Association and has a background in customer service.
Skilled at reinventing herself after many moves as a military spouse, Sonita has never met a stranger and loves serving others. She is married, a mom of four, grandmother of 3 and likes to travel and dabble in home décor.
Arianna Franklin
Arianna Byrd-Lewis is the Client Care Manager at Kadan Homecare. Her daily responsibilities include scheduling Kadan caregivers with clients. Arianna received her Certified Nursing Assistant certificate in 2010 and her Patient Care Technician certification in 2018. She has eight years of experience in the home care industry and is known for her dependability, persistence and ability to work well under pressure.
Her interests include health, fitness and spending time with her husband and children vacationing or visiting parks and museums.
Lisa Young Grant
With a degree in business administration and more than 25 years of operations and administration experience, Lisa Grant brings a high level of organization to the Kadan team. In her current Human Resources role, she interacts with both clients and staff to ensure all documentation is complete and accessible, supports the hiring process and leads a portion of the onboarding class for new employees. She is also responsible for maintaining all professional files for review by state licensing boards.
Lisa is skilled at team building and helps with event planning, both for employee appreciation and community outreach. For relaxation, Lisa enjoys reading and working on jigsaw puzzles.
Heather Gutekunst
Heather Gutekunst is a Client Care Manager at Kadan Homecare where she works to identify the caregivers best suited to meet her clients’ needs. Heather has more than 22 years of experience in home healthcare working in memory care as a coordinator. She previously worked for Expicare Nursing Agency as a Senior Staffing Coordinator for Hospice of Palm Beach.
Heather loves spending time with her family and 3 rescue dogs. She also enjoys running long miles and listening to true crime podcasts. Heather holds a BA in Sociology from Florida Atlantic University.
Sophia Jones
Sophia Jones is a Client Care Manager with nearly 20 years of healthcare experience in-home care and home health care. Some of her responsibilities have included reporting to the Owner and Managing Directors of the company, overseeing day-to-day operations of the company, recruiting, hiring, training employees as well as managing the office and field staff.
Sophia holds a Bachelor of Science in Community and Human Services from State University of New York. In her free time, Sophia enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, and serving in the community.
Kahloe Lesaca
Kahloe is one of Kadan’s registered nurses and responsible for cultivating referral relationships. Internally, she provides training and retention support for our caregivers.
With degrees in broadcasting and nursing, Kahloe is the ideal person to act as a community educator and presenter for Kadan. She has 10 years of nursing experience in emergency surgery and occupational settings. Kahloe is currently a member of the American Nurses Association and Georgia Nurses Association and will complete her master’s in nursing later this year.
Having been raised by her grandfather, Kahloe is passionate about the Kadan mission. Since her family is grown, she enjoys traveling to Los Angeles and London to visit!
Greg Maguire
Greg serves as primary liaison between Kadan Homecare and our referral partners in the 16 county metro Atlanta communities we serve. Greg works closely with social workers, nurses, case managers, discharge planners in hospitals, home health professionals, assisted living facilities, rehab, hospice and many other areas to provide education and understanding of our mission and services at Kadan Homecare, helping our clients thrive and supporting their families.
Prior to joining us, Greg worked for over 15 years at Piedmont Healthcare in many areas such as business development, outreach supporting Piedmont Heart Institute, Transplant, Neuroscience, Diagnostics, Orthopedics, etc. covering Atlanta and most of north Georgia.
Greg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration/Management from the University of Rhode Island. He also served as U.S. Army Officer (Reserves) and retired 1998.
Audrey Miller
As a Support Coordinator, Audrey Miller’s responsibilities include supporting and assisting the office staff, greeting clients, answering phones, preparing documents and folders for the nursing team, assisting with payroll, and processing incoming and outgoing mail.
Audrey has worked in the health care industry for 10 years, and she has a bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology. In her professional experience, her greatest achievements have centered around successfully correcting speech and language disorders in children and helping disabled seniors improve the overall quality of their lives by carefully monitoring their health conditions.
Hazel Reece
Hazel Reece provides administrative support to the Kadan team. Hazel is detail-oriented, skilled in office organization and has a reputation of dependability, honesty and dedication.
A graduate of Pickens Tech, Hazel was trained in medical office administration where she earned the nomination for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership. Hazel worked as geriatric patient account manager with Beverly Enterprises where she was responsible for distributing funds as needed or requested by patient and/or family.
Hazel has worked alongside her husband, T.R., in their home building business where her duties consisted of business management, bookkeeping and accounting.
In her spare time she enjoys working with her husband in their antique store, reading, spending time with family, and playing with their little dog, Zoey.
Heather Roberts
Heather Graham is the Director of Client Services for Kadan Homecare. She has over 14 years’ experience in the Health Care field. She has her Bachelor’s Degree in Health Sciences from Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Care Administration from University of Phoenix. She was a Clinical Manager for an internal medicine practice in Ohio where she worked with clients of all ages.
After moving to Georgia in 2007, she decided to begin working in the social services side of healthcare and enjoys working closely with the geriatric population and their families.
Nascine Chung Shelmon
As a staffing coordinator, Nascine Chung-Shelmon is a liaison between our caregivers and clients. With a degree in business administration, more than 13 years of award-winning customer service experience and four years of experience as a caregiver at Kadan, she brings a unique perspective on best ways to communicate details with caregivers on client requirements. This helps her fulfill her other prime responsibility of ensuring all scheduled shifts are staffed with the best possible match between caregiver and client.
Nascine embodies the family-centered work-life balance we strive for at Kadan. She enjoys spending time with her husband and son, traveling and enjoying the outdoors.
Dawn Tumillo
Dawn Tumillo is an RN-Clinical Liaison for Kadan Homecare. In this role, she conducts in-home assessments of home-care clients, ensuring that caregivers have accurate information and task requirements to provide the best care possible. Dawn holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Georgia Southern University and is BLS Provider Certified. She is an active member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).
Outside of work, Dawn enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and camping, as well as roller skating and reading true-crime novels. She also loves attending live music events and exploring Atlanta’s urban scene.
Jasmine White
With more than five years of hands-on client care experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and more than six years in customer service, Jasmine's background in hands-on care makes her a valuable part of our client experience team. She is a compassionate person that is dedicated to creating positive experiences for both clients and caregivers.
Jasmine began with Kadan as a caregiver but started her heath care career as a CNA. In addition to the CNA certification, she is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Certified Phlebotomist and MedTech. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family, especially her two beautiful children. During downtime she loves spa days and binge-watching Netflix.
Casey Young
Casey ensures Kadan’s stringent employee hiring and operating standards are upheld, conducting employee interviews, performing background checks and employment verifications, keeping employee certifications up to date, and more. Casey also implements new policies for employees and caregivers, coordinates training classes, and assists with counseling and corrective measures to ensure employees and caregivers follow Kadan’s industry-leading practices.
Overall, Casey manages the human resource needs of nearly 300 employees and caregivers at Kadan.Her front-line efforts regarding training, counseling and other support services are a key component of Kadan’s high level of client satisfaction.
Casey has been with Kadan for 15 years and is currently working to obtain her Senior Professional in Human Resources certification from Kennesaw State University.