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HomeWell Care Services is a home care franchise system, with 201 locations, and it is still adding more. Owners pay a 6.0% royalty on gross sales. — HomecareHQ analysis of its 2026 filing.
HomeWell Care Services draws 75.2% of its revenue from royalties, higher than most among franchisors reporting their own books.
A franchisor living on royalties earns when owners do; one living on new sales has to keep selling.
Which franchisors lean on royalties more than HomeWell Care Services?→HomeWell Care Services lost 12.2% of its franchised locations last year, up from 3.4% a year earlier.
Growth with a high exit rate is churn, not health.
Why did HomeWell Care Services locations leave?→HomeWell Care Services adds 72 hours of on-the-job training, above typical among home care systems.
It shows whether a system teaches the job or just the theory.
Which systems give more on-the-job training than HomeWell Care Services?→HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems' 2026 disclosure documents.
The typical home care franchise: 5.0% royalty rate, $52K initial franchise fee, +12.6% net unit growth. See what’s typical →
Not shown for this system: all-in fee load at $1M (the filing does not disclose it).
$69K — That is below typical; the middle system reports $103K.
6.0% — That is above typical; the middle system reports 5.0%.
$609K — Reported as one franchised business, everything billed, open for a period the filing does not state. Too few systems report it the same way to say where that sits.
31 franchises sold and not yet open — That is above typical; the middle system reports 18.
+19.6% — That is above typical; the middle system reports +17.6%.
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