Tech Healthy

The future of home nursing care may come in a little box manufactured by a Malaysian company called Zilant.

McKenney Home Care, launched by two health care executives in Naples, is taking a novel approach to the business. Instead of selling round-the-clock nursing care, Michele McKenney and Patrice McGrath will offer a combination of human touch and advanced monitoring technology made by Zilant.

The way most home-care operations work is they link patients with home-care nurses who are independent contractors, negotiating a cut of the hourly rates. That employment relationship allows agencies to manage the seasonality of the business in areas such as Naples, ramping up when the population swells in the winter and down when it slows in the summer.