I Am Unique Special Care and Case Management was established in 1994 as the first nursing agency cooperative in the United States and the first home care, worker owned, cooperative in North Carolina. I Am Unique's emphasis is on being a nurse-driven and nurse-run organization. By setting up the company along different principles, I Am Unique will be able to attract the best nurses, retain them, and in doing so provide the highest level of care.

Vision
With our emphasis on education, I Am Unique's vision is to be a model agency, a pattern for those providing and requiring the services of nurses skilled in vent management and other areas of highly technical care.

Mission
Our mission is to operate I Am Unique with Godly wisdom and Godly principles recognizing that no one has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual maturity until they have found it finer to serve someone else than to serve themselves.

EXECUTIVE STAFF

Administrator
Janet Campbell
Office Manager
Khanty Campbell
Director of Nursing
Connie Schwamberger
HR Director
Andrea Hines

CORPORATE GOALS

Quality Home Nursing Care:
providing needed services in the home for clients with serious medical conditions, allowing them to be outside of a hospital intensive care unit or institution.

Quality Employment:
improving the wages, benefits, training, support and supervision of nurses, many of whom never received training specific to home care.

Quality Home Care Policy:
working through legislative barriers to enhance industry practices and regulations.

PHILOSOPHY

I Am Unique is dedicated to the provision of comprehensive, quality, client
centered and client family-centered care in the client's place of residence. We
focus on the client's unique physiological, psychological self-esteem, self
actualization needs, and safety.

I Am Unique is committed to the provision of home care services based on a team
concept that will assist the client to search for meaning in their personal life
experiences surrounding their illness or disability.

We encourage our client to make decisions about the provision of appropriate home care services based on their own defined unique needs, and to collaborate actively with I Am Unique's staff, as well as other health care providers.

I Am Unique is also dedicated to the provision of home care education to the:

• Nurse
• Client
• Client Family
• Community

I Am Unique Special Care and Case Management is based on a highly successful model of a home health agency cooperative started in 1985 called Cooperative Home Care Associates. This CHCA is a worker owned agency headquarted in the South Bronx, New York, and specialized in nursing assistants. Since it was established, there have been three other similar nurses aide cooperatives established in the northeast.

I Am Unique's business plan has been written by ICA, Inc. out of Boston, which, since 1978, has specialized in assisting companies to become employee owned and operated. ICA will continue to consult with I Am Unique until we are a well established cooperative.