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Thursday 15 October 2026 · Global franchise news

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Healthcare Couple Opens SYNERGY HomeCare Location In Goldsboro, North Carolina

Justin and Ashley Ange bring nearly 25 years of combined nursing and healthcare administration experience to non-medical in-home care in eastern North Carolina.

By Franchise Brief Newsroom·7 Oct 2026· 3 min read
Justin and Ashley Ange in SYNERGY HomeCare uniforms.

Justin and Ashley Ange in SYNERGY HomeCare uniforms.

SYNERGY HomeCare has opened a new location in Goldsboro, North Carolina, led by husband-and-wife team Justin and Ashley Ange, who bring nearly 25 years of combined experience across nursing and healthcare administration.

The business will provide non-medical in-home care across Goldsboro and the surrounding communities of eastern North Carolina, a market outside the state's largest metropolitan systems where home care options are often thinner than demand.

Clinical background is the asset the couple arrives with. In-home care franchises live or die on caregiver quality and on trust with families and referral sources such as hospitals, discharge planners and geriatric care managers, relationships that are considerably easier for operators who have worked inside the care system.

The opening also illustrates how service franchising keeps expanding through operators rather than through corporate development. A franchisor supplies brand, training, insurance frameworks and care protocols; a local team supplies the clinical judgment and the community relationships that make those systems usable in a specific town.

For the couple, the test will be the same one facing every new home care franchisee: recruiting and retaining caregivers in a tight labor market, and building enough referral flow to keep hours consistent. For SYNERGY, each eastern North Carolina opening extends the network into communities where families increasingly need a local answer rather than a distant one.

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