Ann and Mark Baiada
Ann Baiada
Ann Claffey Baiada, RN, a champion of the nursing profession, is the Founder of BAYADAbility Rehab Solutions, retired CRRN and former Director of BAYADA Home Health Care.
Ann has an unwavering commitment to clinical excellence, which motivated her to create two training and mentoring programs at BAYADA—Project White Cap, a training program for new nurses, and Project White Shoes, annual training for clinical leaders. In recognition of her vision to develop strong clinical leaders as a means to ensure clinical excellence and future growth, Mrs. Baiada was named one of the Best 50 Women in Business Award from NJBiz in 2010.
Mrs. Baiada also founded BAYADAbility Rehab Solutions, the first and only home health care rehabilitation nursing program, in 1998. Her passion for nursing and her ability to empower and inspire, led to the establishment of an award in her honor, the Ann Baiada Award for Excellence in Nursing Leadership in 2006, and the development of the Ann Baiada Center for Clinical Excellence in 2010.
Her compassion, generosity, and personal sense of responsibility have been recognized through various honors. Most recently, Mrs. Baiada received the Legacy Award from the Legacy Foundation in 2021 and she and her husband, Mark, were recipients of the 2021 Lifetime of Service and Achievement Award from Chestnut Hill College and the 2022 Lawrence S. Smith Distinguished Service Award from the YMCA of Greater Philadelphia. In September 2022, she received The Tip O’Neill Irish Diaspora Award in County Donegal, Ireland.
Of all her achievements, Mrs. Baiada considers her five children and 11 grandchildren to be her most rewarding success. She and Mark reside in Moorestown, NJ.
Mark Baiada
Mark Baiada founded BAYADA Home Health Care in 1975 with the mission to help people have a safe home life with comfort, independence, and dignity. Almost fifty years later, BAYADA has grown from its humble beginnings to become a global leader in home health care serving clients from more than 380 offices in 22 states with locations in Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Korea.
In early 2019, Mr. Baiada, now Chairman of BAYADA, oversaw the company’s transition to a nonprofit organization. Unprecedented in the industry, the transition was made to ensure BAYADA’s mission, purpose, and business model would endure, and to help BAYADA realize its vision of helping millions of people worldwide experience a better quality of life at home.
The values Mr. Baiada learned from studying such role models as Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and St. Francis of Assisi, guided him to success as a family man, businessman, and philanthropist. Honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the Philadelphia region, Mr. Baiada credits much of his success to his belief: “Think big. Work hard. Show love.” He also credits his company’s consistent growth to his people-first focus—hiring like-minded and like-hearted people who share in his vision and providing them with the support to achieve great things.
Mr. Baiada’s work as a humanitarian has been recognized with various honors, including most recently, the 2019 President’s Award from the Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania; 2018 Judge Lois G. Forer Child Advocacy Award ; 2017 Martha Esposito Award from the Home Care & Hospice Association of NJ; Distinguished Graduate Award from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Office of Catholic Education (OCE), Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools (BLOCS), Faith in the Future (FIF), and Independence Mission Schools (IMS) in 2017; and the Legacy of Giving Award from the Community Foundation of South Jersey in 2016.
He too, like Ann, considers his family to be his greatest achievement of all his successes.
