Mission

About CABS Health Network

Since 2020, CABS Health Network (CABSHN) is the market brand for CABS Home Attendants Service Inc., a licensed home care service agency established in 1979 to provide home care services to elderly and disabled Brooklyn residents, New York. CABS HAS one visible embodiment of a /long-term effort by its parent company, CABS Corporation, to create community-owned and controlled non-profit enterprises to provide essential services and employment opportunities for neighborhood residents.

Why a Health Network?

CABSHN takes a care-management approach to provide services for home care services. We have several clients with multiple chronic conditions, and we seek to support them to reduce hospitalization and other social determinants of health. Currently, CABSHN provides care management services, health promotion, referral, and assistance with access to community & social services as part of our home care services and outreach efforts, even though the Agency cannot bill for these services separately.

Changes in health care delivery expectations are making it more critical for healthcare organizations to approach care from a holistic standpoint. CABSHN has been evolving its service offerings and, in 2020, has started its Care Management Division. Also, the Agency has established several contracts with other medical providers to increase access to care for its clients—clinical and nursing services, therapy and rehabilitation solutions, medical equipment, and nutritional services. The Agency continues to incorporate robust and proven customer experience frameworks and technology to improve its quality of care, reaching clients at the right time and in the most appropriate places.

Our Philosophy & Mission

Because of its community orientation, CABS has a unique commitment and capability to provide service reflective of the needs and particular requirements of the communities it serves. CABS’ service philosophy, therefore, is to provide quality care with the maximum degree of sensitivity and understanding for each group or community served.

CABS ultimate goal is to provide a full range of home care services to New York City residents under a variety of contractual arrangements. These will include the following:

Registered Nurses
Licensed Practical Nurses
Home Health Aides
Personal Care Aides
Homemakers
Housekeepers
Physical Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Respiratory Therapists
Speech-Language Pathology
Audiology
Medical Social Work

We're Hiring

If you are looking to take your career to the next level, explore all the CABS Homecare career opportunities. We are always looking for certified Home Health Aides and Nurses to provide the best service to our clients; contact the HR Department at hrdepartment@cabshomecare.org to Take your career to the next level, explore employment opportunities at CABS Health Network. We are always hiring home care workers, nurses, and care managers. Contact our HR Department and learn more at hrdepartment@cabsheathnetwork.org.

Our Executive Team

Sherly Demosthenes-Atkinson

Chief Executive Officer

Sherly Demosthenes-Atkinson was appointed CEO of CABS Home Attendants Service, Inc., in 2017. Sherly exemplifies CABS’ mission of social equity for all, including quality healthcare services. Prior to her appointment as CEO in 2017, she was the Executive Director from 2013 to 2017. Sherly also served as Associate Director of Case Management from 2006 to 2013, which gave her a great opportunity to absorb and develop much appreciation for not only from the client’s served perspective to the organizational behavior toward service delivery, but also the vision for streamlining and positioning the CABS organization and the CABS Team. As a result, Sherly played a pivotal role in establishing a transformational culture that has led to high performance in the homecare quality service delivery for approximately 1200 clients under multiple contracts.

Most notably, and for the first time, under Sherly’s leadership CABS was exposed to diverse market segmentations with various partnerships such as the NYC Health & Hospital Corporation (HHC), Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) to help stratify the agency’s revenue streams. In 2019, CABS acquired a two-year contract with the largest public housing authority in North America, NYC Department of Housing Authority (NYCHA,) as an external community partner to provide home care services to their residents. Sherly is a recipient of the 2019 Caribbean American Healthcare Award from Caribbean Life News for her devotion to Healthcare – and – a recipient of the New York City & State Responsible 100 Awards for Health Care. She continues to build and lead the CABS organization to new heights for success throughout New York City and Nassau County.

Sherly lives on Long Island, NY with her husband and their two children. She holds a Master’s degree in Health Administration from Hofstra University.

Margaret Agudelo

Director of Business Operations

Margaret Agudelo is the Director of Business Operations for CABS Attendant Services, Inc. Ms. Agudelo has dedicated over 15 years of forward-thinking experience since joining the organization in 2004. She possesses strong fiscal management and leadership, and business strategy development expertise.

Starting as a Senior Bookkeeper in Housekeeping, Ms. Agudelo has risen in the ranks to Assistant Director of Business Operations in December of 2012. Her current role, Director of Business Operations, of six years, oversees the fiscal health, technology infrastructure, and administrative workforce. Her leadership model provides key input into the scope and scale of CABS enterprise.

Margaret is highly motivated, and take each of her role seriously, and manages well under pressure. Margaret always manages expectations and is deadline and goal-oriented. She is a first-generation college graduate; she holds a degree in Applied Science with Honors from the LaGuardia College and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration majoring in Accounting and minoring in International marketing from the Bernard M. Baruch College in 2005.

Contessa Officer

Director of Corporate Strategy and Programs

Ms. Officer is an experienced professional with over 16 years working with mission-driven organizations, specifically with individuals with developmental disabilities. Over the years, through her volunteerism and professional work experience, she has sharpened her skills in programs and project management, care coordination, training & development, quality assurance and compliance, and customer service management.

Daphnee Damas

Director of Nursing

Daphne Damas is an experienced clinical professional with over 15 years working in the health care industry as a nurse. She began her career in the home care industry as a field Lambardi home care nurse. She has spent almost ten years providing services in the home care sector, training and educating nurses and home health aides, and over eight years working in the hospital, nursing home, and clinic settings. Her areas of competency include medical-surgical and family medicine in an ambulatory setting, which has sharpened her evaluation and treatment planning skills; as well as services to the adult population, providing telephone triage assessment, advisement, and education to patients.

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