Our reliable service helps keep clients in their homes.

Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is a nationally recognized, worker-owned home care agency in the Bronx. CHCA was founded in 1985 to provide quality home care to clients by providing quality jobs for direct-care workers.

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The care and affection they have given me always have me very satisfied. I won’t switch to another home care agency for nothing.  I have recommended many people who need care to CHCA to receive quality care like me.
Natividad Ramirez
Natividad Ramirez
CHCA Client
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I've been a CHCA client since 2009 and my experiences have been good. My aides have been very helpful in attending to my needs. I would recommend this company to family and friends.
Pamela Hall
Pamela Hall
CHCA Client

Our Mission

CHCA started with 12 home health aides. The cooperative now employs more than 1,600 staff. Together with PHI, a nonprofit founded by CHCA in 1985, CHCA maintains an employer-based workforce development program that provides free training for over 600 low-income and unemployed women annually and serves as a significant driver of employment in the Bronx.

Together, we strive to achieve the following goals:

share To provide reliable, high quality home health care services for those who are elderly, chronically ill, or living with disabilities;
emoji-normal To offer the highest possible salaries and benefits while building a profitable worker-owned company;
cup To give workers opportunities to learn and grow as members of a health care team.

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Care Like Family

A force for the good of the workers, customers, community, and environment.

We are a licensed home care agency that provides high-quality, reliable services to people who are elderly, chronically ill, or living with disabilities. CHCA provides services throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx to people approved for home care by medicaid, those who are privately insured or private pay. We also operate as a Fiscal Intermediary for approved consumer directed (CDPAP) services.

By providing high-quality home care jobs, Cooperative Home Care Associates is committed to improving both the lives of direct-care providers and the lives of the clients who rely on their quality care and support.

In 2012, CHCA became the first home care company to earn a B Corp certification. As a certified B Corp, we make a public commitment to considering the impact our decisions have on our employees, suppliers, community, consumers, and the environment.

CHCA stands behind its mission and its ongoing commitment to provide quality care to the residents in the NY Metropolitan area requiring home health care. We strongly believe it is accomplished by investing in the workforce.

We own
quality care.

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