What does an owner commit to at Nurse Next Door?
Nurse Next Door gives an owner a territory of about 9,000 residents aged 65 and over. That is lower than most among home care systems.
Across 17 home care systems
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How long you are in, and what leaving looks like
A standard Nurse Next Door territory holds about 9,000 residents aged 65 and over.
Standard territory size, across the systems measuring it the same way
Every system here sizes on residents aged 65 and over.
3 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.
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| System | Residents aged 65+ |
|---|---|
| A Place At Home | about 40,000 |
| Amada Senior Care | 32,000–42,000 |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | at least 25,000 |
| BrightStar Care | at least 15,000 |
| CareBuilders at Home | 30,000–40,000 |
| ComForCare | 25,000–35,000 |
| FirstLight Home Care | about 25,000 |
| Griswold | 25,000 |
| Home Instead | 10,000 |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | 30,000–50,000 |
| Homewatch CareGivers | 38,000–40,000 |
| HomeWell Care Services | 30,000–40,000 |
| Nurse Next Door | about 9,000 |
| One You Love Homecare | about 50,000 |
| Right at Home | at least 15,000 |
| Senior Helpers | 25,000–35,000 |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | about 20,000 |
Only systems that state a 65-and-over population are drawn: a system sizing on the whole population has measured something different, and the two are never ranked against each other. Where a filing says “at least” a number, the qualifier travels with the value.
What an owner has to hit, and what happens if they miss
What an owner may not do
- Franchisee must offer all products and services designated as required for all franchisees.p. 50 ↗
- Franchisee may participate in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, other federal governmental payor programs, and State Medicaid/Medicaid Waiver programs only if applicable requirements are met.p. 50 ↗
- Franchisor has unlimited right to change the types of authorized products or services offered.p. 50 ↗
- Franchisee may only offer and sell products and services approved by the franchisor.p. 50 ↗
- No restrictions are placed on the clients to whom the franchisee may sell within its Territory.p. 50 ↗
Nurse Next Door’s filing discloses 4 proceedings.
That is 5.6 per 100 locations, against 1.3 per 100 locations across the whole field. A count of proceedings mostly measures how large and how old a system is, which is why it is shown as a rate and never as a score.
- 2024 · pending · 24-cv-01259
Franchisee alleged NND made material misrepresentations in its Franchise Disclosure Document in connection with the sale of franchises, specifically that they were fraudulently induced to enter into the franchise agreement which allegedly failed to disclose that franchisees in Florida would be unable to obtain the requisite licensure to provide skilled nursing services.p. 16 ↗
- 2020 · settled · JAMS Arbitration Reference No. 1160023755
NND alleged the franchisee breached its franchise agreements by failing to continuously operate its franchised businesses subsequent to training, wrongful termination of the franchise agreement and breach of the non competition covenants, and sought damages for unpaid royalties, lost future profits, interest, attorneys' fees, and costs, plus injunctive relief. Franchisee filed counterclaims on January 11, 2021 seeking unspecified damages for alleged breaches, overpayments for PPE, and loss of business value.p. 15 ↗
- 2016-0835
Commissioner alleged that Nurse Next Door violated the disclosure provisions of the Maryland Franchise Law in 2016 by directing all or a portion of the initial franchise fee paid by two Maryland franchisees into an escrow account in California and not deferring collection of those fees until pre-opening obligations were completed.p. 15 ↗
1 earlier proceeding
Commissioner investigated franchise sales and disclosure practices in connection with certain franchises sold in 2017 and concluded that Nurse Next Door had improperly shared a New York Times article about the earnings of a California franchisee during the sales process in at least one sale, constituting an improper financial performance representation.p. 15 ↗
How to read these terms
- Contract language does not summarize. Where a filing states a term in words, those words are what we publish, with the page they are on. Only the handful of terms that are genuinely numbers get compared with other systems.
- A territory is only comparable to one measured the same way. Some systems size on residents aged 65 and over, some on the whole population. We keep those apart and never rank one against the other.
- Disclosed cases are not a score. A count of proceedings mostly measures how big and how old a system is. We publish what each filing discloses, in its own words, with a rate per hundred locations so the count is not mistaken for a verdict.
›The numbers behind this page
What the agreement says about the minimums
- Royalty you owe regardless: “If the total royalties you paid in any 12 month period are less than the annual minimum royalties described above, then the difference is paid by you at the end of each 12 month period.”
- Sales you must reach: “one hundred and twenty-five thousand ($125,000) dollars of Gross Sales in the first twelve (12) month period following the Start Date;”
The proceedings, as the filing describes them
- “The matter is currently in the discovery process.”
- “the franchisee agreed to pay NND $200,000.00 in exchange for a mutual release of claims by all parties”
- “the Commissioner concluded that we violated Section 14-230 of the Maryland Franchise Law”
- “which constituted an improper financial performance representation”
What this filing does not disclose
- Nothing material to this question is missing from this filing.
Every term on this page is read from Nurse Next Door’s own 2026 disclosure document, and the wording is the filing’s rather than ours. Territory sizes are compared only with systems measuring on the same basis. Disclosed proceedings are shown as the filing describes them, with their status where the filing states one. Source ↗
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