Andre Sargsyan came home from a trip to Armenia and saw his father’s cancer diagnosis sitting on the kitchen table. That was 2021. By 2023, watching the trajectory of his father’s illness and the gaps in the care his father was beginning to receive, Andre filed the paperwork to start his own home healthcare agency. More Life Home Healthcare was founded in June of that year.
A year and a half later, in November 2024, his father passed away. The final months were the worst of it. The nurses sent to their home were not caring for his father. They were mistreating him. Andre watched it happen day after day, with his family in the room advocating for every detail.
He had already started the company by then. What he saw in those final months confirmed why it had to exist.
The harder question came alongside the grief. If this was happening to his father, surrounded by people fighting for him, what was happening to the patients who had no one in the room? More Life is the answer Andre is still building. The principle he organized the company around is the one he wished his father had been given. The standard a family wants for its own should be the standard offered to every patient, in every home. Everything else at More Life follows from that. The hiring rule is the most direct expression of it. Andre will not place a caregiver in a patient’s home unless he would trust that person to walk into his own parents’ home and care for them. Candidates who do not meet that bar do not get hired, regardless of credentials or experience. It is a slower way to build a team. It is the only way Andre is willing to do it.
What that team delivers is the full range of services a patient needs to recover and live with dignity at home. Skilled nursing for medication management, wound care, and the day-to-day clinical attention that keeps a patient stable. Specialized wound care for the cases that require it. Physical therapy and occupational therapy to help patients regain mobility and the ability to do the small things that make a life feel like a life. Speech therapy. Home health aide support for the daily tasks that become difficult after illness or surgery. Medical social services for the patients and families navigating systems no one prepared them for. More Life partners with hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and physicians to make the transition from clinical setting to home as seamless as possible, because the moment a patient leaves a hospital is often the moment things start to fall apart.
Two and a half years in, the footprint speaks to what is possible when the standard scales without dilution. More Life now serves Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern, Tulare, and Kings. Ten counties across Southern California and the Central Valley. Many of the communities served are diverse and underserved, the kind of communities that have historically been the last to receive the level of care wealthier neighborhoods take for granted. Andre is intentional about that. The standard does not change based on the zip code of the patient.
The company is licensed and accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), and it operates in a regulatory environment that has tightened considerably in the past year. Federal scrutiny of home health agencies is at one of its highest points in recent memory, and agencies across the country are being examined more closely than they have been in years. More Life recently completed a regulatory survey and passed without findings. For Andre, this is not something to celebrate publicly so much as confirm privately. He set the company up to operate by the book on day one, not because he anticipated the current climate, but because his father deserved providers who operated by the book and did not always get them. The standard predates the scrutiny.
Andre is not finished. The next chapter for More Life is geographic. Northern California first, then expansion beyond state lines. The framing is important. This is not growth for its own sake. It is the conviction that started the company reaching more patients, more families, and more communities that have been underserved by the existing model of in-home care. Andre wants to build something that lasts long enough and reaches far enough to change what families across the country can expect when they bring a loved one home.
When Andre talks about his father, he does not dwell on the mistreatment. He talks about what his father deserved. The dignity of being seen as a person and not a chart. The professionalism of being treated by people who took the work seriously. The comfort of knowing that the people in his home actually wanted to be there. Andre could not give those things to his father. He has spent the years since giving them to other people’s fathers, and mothers, and grandparents, and to anyone else whose home More Life has been invited into. Healing starts where the heart is. That is the company’s own line, and in Andre’s hands it has stopped being a slogan and started being a standard.
