Visiting Angels, an in-home lifestyle support service, opened a center in Gloucester recently. Shown outside the office on Lewis Avenue are, from left, Frank McCarthy, Karen Wilkins. and Darnley Adamson. Photo by Bill Nachman
Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services recently opened an employee staffing center on Lewis Avenue in Gloucester Court House.
The new office is headed by Darnley Adamson, regional manager. Frank J. McCarthy, who started the local Visiting Angels operation in Kilmarnock four years ago, is director and owner.
McCarthy said that Visiting Angels employs over 85 caregivers throughout its Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck service area. They are supported by a management staff of five, including McCarthy, Adamson, community liaison Karen Wilkins, and two registered nurses.
The business, which is a franchise of a Pennsylvania-based company that has over 425 franchisees throughout the country, provides personal and companion care services, McCarthy said. "If one is to be operating a home-care agency, it is important to remain focused entirely on home care," he said.
McCarthy said he developed an interest in home health when he became the principal caregiver for his elderly parents. Now, he said, opening the Gloucester office is like coming home, since his ancestors, the Thurstons, were very early settlers here and were the owners of Landsdowne and early members of Abingdon Parish.
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