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Meet Our Team

We believe every family in the area deserves tailor made in-home senior care with a compassionate touch. That's why we established Home Instead® of West Columbia, SC.

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Proudly Serving Aging Adults & Their Families

Our Promise

As a locally owned business, our team offers friendly, responsive service right in your neighborhood. Families love our team because we:
  • Do what we say we’re going to do – each and every time
  • Solve care problems using compassionate, person-centered solutions
  • Engage in thoughtful relationships with the families we serve
  • Give back to our community

About Us

Meet Our Home Care Team

Owners, Brad and Samantha

Brad & Samantha Wolfe, Owners

After starting our family and living in the Greater Columbia, SC area for over 10 years, we fell in love with Home Instead during our time working with Home Instead in Michigan. After spending 3 years there, it was our desire to return home and invest in this community that we care so much about. With Samantha’s background as a RN and Brad’s experience in the industry, this was a perfect fit to love and serve this area. The relationships with our clients, their families, and our amazing CAREGivers is what we enjoy so much about Home Instead. We’re striving to enhance the lives of seniors and their loved ones in the Greater Columbia area.
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Matt Cogdill - Vice President

Prior to joining Home Instead, I served as a Vice President with Lexington Medical Center in Lexington, South Carolina. My wife, Alyssa, currently works as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with Prisma Health in Columbia. We were both raised in Lexington and feel called to serve the people of the Midlands. After many years working in hospital settings, we both felt the need to work with seniors and loved ones in a way that honors not just our clients, their families, but also our amazing CAREGivers.  

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Sarah Taylor - Human Resources Manager

I am a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who fell in love with the Columbia area when my family moved here in 2019. After joining Home Instead, I realized what an honor and opportunity I had to serve the aging adults in this community. As a child and teenager, I gravitated each Sunday at church to the elderly for a hug, a smile, and to find out how their week had gone. Joining the Home Instead Team felt like a perfect fit for me. In my free time I love to cook a good Gumbo or Jambalaya and spend time with my husband and children on the Lake. 

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Amberle Nickas - Human Resources Coordinator

As the HR Coordinator here at Home Instead I recruit, interview, and hire the CAREGivers who work for us. I’m originally from Pennsylvania but have lived here in South Carolina for the past 3 years. During the summers in college, I worked at a camp for adults and kids with varying disabilities and I loved caring for the people I met there. So, after college I became a certified nursing assistant and worked in a skilled nursing facility for almost 2 years before going back to school. I love working on finding the best CAREGivers for our clients! My passions include science and history and I love reading, listening to podcasts, and making art.

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Tiffany Milhouse -Special Projects Coordinator

Tiffany has worked in all facets of healthcare from being a CNA to helping build and run memory care units. She joined Home Instead in 2022 and enjoys spending time with all of the clients and ensuring that they are getting the highest level of care to add to their quality of life with their care team. Her goal is to make sure that with their care team, that their limitations do not limit them. In her spare time her and her husband are busy raising their 5 children on their small family farm, going fishing, spending time at church, watching football, boating on Lake Murray or just a quiet evening with family. She is also completing her Bachelors degree in Business Administration. 

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China Boozer - Service Coordinator

China joined the Home Instead team in 2022 after working in Florence, SC at a local hospital as an Office Coordinator and Surgical Technician. She also has 6 years of healthcare experience from working in Mental Health and Retirement Communities. China has always been passionate about patient care, whether it's bedside or as a part of the Administration team .

At Home Instead, China is our Staffing Coordinator. China provides a listening ear and a caring word to allow our clients and caregivers to know they can rely on her for help. She does her best to ensure the Clients and Caregivers are matched perfectly for one another.

China is a native of Lexington, South Carolina where she lives with her two children, Kingston & London. She enjoys boating on the lake, baking and hanging out with her friends and family. China attended college at Florence Darlington Technical College and Francis Marion University. 

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Brittany Barfield - Service Coordinator

I joined the team in 2023 after working previously with another home care provider in Columbia, SC as the ICS Manager. I have over 10 years of experience in the medical field ranging from PCA, EMS, and Home Care. I am passionate about helping others and making sure the needs of those she services are met. At Home Instead, I serve as our Staffing Coordinator. As an imperative part of the team, I meet with new Care Givers to pair them with the clients that would be a best fit. I have a son, Hunter, who is my biggest pride and joy. I enjoy walking the riverwalk, painting, and hanging out with family and friends. 

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Michaele Isaac - Service Coordinator

I joined Home Instead in November of 2022 after relocating from Washington state in April. I have worked in the Home Care and Home Health industry for 20 years and have done a little bit of everything, from caregiving to branch management.  As the service coordinator, my main goal is to provide excellent customer service to both clients and CAREGivers alike, and to make sure the clients are staffed with the best fit CAREGivers available. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking, spending time with my family, fishing and enjoying the outdoors.

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Shauntavia Bonham - Lead Care Professional

Shauntavia was born and raised here in Columbia South Carolina. She joined Home Instead in 2022 after working in home health care for 4 years. She enjoys working as a team to help out and making sure all of our clients are getting top-level care in the comfort of their own home. She gained a passion for helping seniors after having to care for elderly family members.  And she enjoys stepping into difficult situations where "Life happened" and she gets the opportunity to introduce a new Care Pro or fill in a gap herself. She attended college at Strayer University and Ultimate Medical Academy. She has two beautiful daughters and they love to travel, listen to music and cooking. 

Our Team

Your Home Instead team in West Columbia, SC possesses a heartfelt desire to work with seniors in the community. It is our ultimate goal to forge extraordinary relationships between our clients and their Care Professionals.

When you are ready for help, our caring staff is on call to quickly answer your questions and accommodate your senior services needs.

We are always looking for the right people that are dependable and compassionate to become Care Pros. We have available home care careers in these cities:

Elgin, Dentsville, Lexington, St. Andrews, West Columbia, Irmo, Forest Acres and Chapin

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