Ide Management Group Purchases

Ide Management Group, known throughout Illinois, Indiana and Iowa for its successful management of skilled-nursing and long-term-care facilities, purchased Jasper’s Providence Home Health Care Center on Nov. 1.

Effective with the purchase, the facility’s name changed to Cathedral Health Care Center. Ide Management Group intends to maintain the home’s Catholic affiliation, including maintenance of its chapel as a worship site in accordance with diocesan guidelines.

Mark Ide, founder and president of the Indianapolis-based company, spent 15 years working for nonprofit organizations, which resulted in an unparalleled passion to raise the bar for care and rehab services for seniors. These desires lead to the founding of Ide Management Group in 1997.

“We’re not your typical management company,” Ide said. “We don’t just acquire facilities. We get to know our residents by their first names. We build relationships with them – not as owners, but as partners to ensure they receive the care they need and their lives are enriched by being in our facility.”

Ide’s core philosophy is “residents first, employees always,” and profits will follow. This is the reason Ide Management Group continues to be successful.

“The welcome we have already received from the Jasper Chamber of Commerce and all the members of the board at the former Providence Home Health Care Center makes us eager to align Ide Management Group with the Jasper community. We aren’t just coming here to do business, we are moving here to be part of the community,” Ide said.

For the next several months, Ide Management will be busy introducing facility best practices and programs to the residents and staff of Cathedral Health Care Center. The Ide Management team will be at Cathedral Health Care Center throughout the next several months to meet with staff, and with residents and their families.