{"id":774709,"date":"2026-07-20T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774709\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:46:27","slug":"ct-company-going-national-with-unique-caregiver-reliability-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774709\/","title":{"rendered":"CT company going national with unique caregiver reliability model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madison resident Bryan Dylewski founded Middletown-based Solenvia<\/a> in 2014 after experiencing unreliable home care for his ailing father. Twelve years later, his company is on the verge of going national.<\/p>\n

Solenvia, formally known as The HomeAides, is expanding its transportation and caregiver reliability model nationally through franchising. The company is finalizing six to eight franchises by the end of the month in Connecticut and beyond. Dylewski said he hopes to have 150 franchises throughout the country within the next three years.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said his company addresses the home care industry\u2019s most persistent but overlooked challenges: Caregiver transportation. Dylewski said he experienced the challenges firsthand when helping his father through his ALS battle. He found that many home care providers don\u2019t have reliable transportation and many home care providers want to work but many can\u2019t afford Uber or Lyft consistently.<\/p>\n

Solenvia provides caregivers transportation to and from the client\u2019s house. The company has a fleet of company cars and drivers that operate across the state to pick up caregivers and bring them home after a day with their client.<\/p>\n

Solenvia has serviced 3,500-plus families in Connecticut and Massachusetts since its founding with 80 to 90% of the business coming from Connecticut. Dylewski said he\u2019s excited to replicate this through franchises across the country with the demand for senior home care rising.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said searching for reliable home healthcare for his father compelled him to start the own business in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father had a terrible accident and ended up falling and had severe head trauma and was later diagnosed with ALS,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cWhile he was in the hospital, he was in a skilled rehab and was getting therapy but like most people, my dad wanted to come home and did not want to stay in a nursing home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took him home and he needed 24-hour care. In order for the rehab facility to discharge him, they needed to know that there was 24-hour care in place. I interviewed and hired a couple of Connecticut companies in the Hartford market and had negative experiences with them,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said reliability was \u201ca big issue\u201d across the board. A number of home health care providers would show up two or three hours late at times or sometimes not at all. Eventually, Dylewski hired a private caregiver that, between that caregiver and himself, provided 24-hour hour care for his father.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said in his experience, many of the caregivers didn\u2019t have the proper knowledge, training or support from their agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an expectation that when the caregiver came in, they would actually know what needed to be done. That wasn\u2019t necessarily the case,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cThis experience was personal. My father was dependent on having this caregiver by his side on a day-to-day basis. \u2026 It hits home when you think \u201cI can do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought if this was happening to me, this is a real industry issue and I started The HomeAids,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cI learned the real issue of caregiver reliability started with transportation. A lot of caregivers that are in the marketplace are limited to one vehicle or don\u2019t even have a vehicle or have a vehicle that is not reliable. That\u2019s an added cost component for caregivers coming from cities like Hartford or New Haven and the clients are in the suburbs like South Windsor, Manchester or Vernon. That\u2019s a distance for caregivers to travel each day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Solenvia<\/p>\n

One of Solenvia’s 20 vehicles that transports caregivers to and from clients. (Courtesy of Solenvia)<\/p>\n

Dylewski said what he experienced with his father was that a lot of these companies were basically placement agencies. \u201cYou called them and then they just sent the caregiver and that caregiver didn\u2019t really know a lot about what was going on,\u201d he said. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t that interaction between the agency and the family. I thought that was crucial.\u201d<\/p>\n

To combat that, Dylewski said Solenvia implemented a service plan manager position. The person in that position does spot checks with the caregiver on a weekly basis and it could be multiple times a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that it\u2019s crucial for the caregiver to have ongoing support. We want to have eyes in the home with the family to be able to make any adjustments,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cMaybe the care plan needs to change because mom or dad\u2019s condition is progressing and there needs to be some changes made to the approaches. There are different behaviors that are coming up and new behaviors that need to be addressed and the caregiver needs to be trained on to have a successful outcome. When you see this in motion, you see the results. \u2026 Families are happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the client who\u2019s at a frail stage of their life, it\u2019s important that they\u2019re comfortable with the caregiver in the house and when you see that, it\u2019s rewarding,\u201d he added. \u201cWe have clients that have been with us for years. We\u2019ve had clients who have had 24-hour services with us for 11 years. That\u2019s big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylewski said when he started the business, he knew transportation was one of the first issues he wanted to solve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it as being valuable and crucial to delivering a successful service and a quality service. That\u2019s where it all starts,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cIt starts with the caregiver showing up. What I was doing was creating this delivery model to the client, and it closed the gap in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylewski said his unique offering provided more consistency in scheduling the caregivers. In addition to the transportation delivering care on time, caregivers were also happy with the provided transportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you could fix that problem, that transportation issue, then it\u2019s a win-win for everybody. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve been experiencing over the years. We believe that we\u2019ve created a care delivery model that is unique and has several differentiators. The market is responding favorably to it,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Because of the success over the last 12 years in Connecticut and Massachusetts, Dylewski believes this unique business model can \u201cpotentially transform the home care industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the fact that it\u2019s a Connecticut-based company and we have an opportunity to have a national presence. We launched our franchise initiative in mid-January of 2026. Since January of 2026, we actually have six to eight pending franchise agreements that are out with a closing of potentially 10 to 12 territories throughout the United States,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said he hopes up to eight initial franchise agreements will be closed by the end of the month. Those territories include new territories in Connecticut, as well as in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that\u2019s just going to continue to evolve. We\u2019ve partnered with a franchise development company, one of the largest ones in the country. They understand our business model. They understand the senior care market space. They know the differentiators and we have projected out to have over 150 locations over the next three years,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

\"Solenvia<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Solenvia<\/p>\n

Solenvia owner Bryan Dylewski founded the senior home care company in 2014 and has started franchising his business with six to eight franchises expected to be finalized by the end of the month. (Courtesy of Solenvia)<\/p>\n

Dylewski said the franchise model brings in owner operators, and they \u201csee the differentiators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believe in the brand. They invest in it. They believe in the processes that we\u2019ve created. We provide training and ongoing support to them to grow into their markets and territories that they purchase. We believe that that is the way to scale,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said the company closed at $12.7 million in revenue in 2025. That\u2019s been a consistent number over the last few years. The peak was about $15 million in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile most agencies and most businesses in Connecticut were shut down, we were growing. When people were discharged from the hospital positive for COVID-19, they were calling and needed 24-hour-care. We were providing caregiving services and we still do today. When someone calls and does a request, we can provide a placement within two or three hours. Most agencies, it takes three to five days to get a caregiver,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Solenvia has a pool of nearly 700 caregivers in Connecticut and a fleet of about 20 vehicles in its transportation department.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the clients schedules are created and filled, we know the caregivers that need transportation on a day-to-day basis. That schedule goes to our dispatch department, and we have routers that actually develop routes for each driver,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cOur drivers start their day at 5 a.m. and their route is already developed. They know exactly where to go to pick up the caregiver and what client they need to bring them to. That\u2019s done on a day-to-day basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, Solenvia does about 1,600 transports per month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe transportation is the part of the business that connects the caregiver to the clients. Without it, we would probably be just a typical agency that could only manage a caseload of $1.5 million or $2 million a year in business revenue,\u201d Dylewski said.<\/p>\n

Dylewski said the success of his business \u201ckeeps my father\u2019s spirit alive\u201d and that gives him goosebumps when he thinks about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought of growing nationally and franchising. But as the years evolved, I saw the business model and its benefits. I knew I had something unique,\u201d Dylewski said. \u201cFranchising was the way to go. You got to get people who are invested in it. You\u2019ve got to get owner operators. And if owner operators, if you can get owner operators to buy into the model, they\u2019re going to grow it. They want to make impacts in their local communities, and I just got to give them the tools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison resident Bryan Dylewski founded Middletown-based Solenvia in 2014 after experiencing unreliable home care for his ailing father.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[330501,24085,20242,15861,36034,15862,97,252,253,330502,983,168221,882,330499,330500,6145],"class_list":["post-774709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-bryan-dylewski","tag-caregiving","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-franchising","tag-hartford-courant","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-home-healthcare","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-middletown","tag-solenvia","tag-the-homeaides","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}