Executive Director
Runs the office and answers for the care every family gets. If something isn't right, this is the person who puts it right.
About our Lehigh Valley home care office
From our office on West Broad Street in Bethlehem, we match kind, dependable caregivers with families across Lehigh and Northampton counties. Executive Director Christine Vander Valk leads the team.
The team at our Bethlehem office
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Christine Vander Valk
Executive Director
With a career rooted in education and family mentorship, I have always been driven by a passion for helping others. My experience as a teacher and Family Mentor allowed me to build deep relationships while supporting students and their families through unique challenges. Now, I am thrilled to bring that same dedication to Always Responsive Home Care, where I can continue to advocate for families and support their home health needs. I believe that quality care starts with trust and clear communication, values I have championed throughout my professional journey. When I am not working, I love traveling with my family, cheering for my children at their sporting events, and taking my dog on long walks. I look forward to providing your loved ones with the compassionate, responsive care they deserve.
The team behind every caregiver
A caregiver never works alone. These are the people in the office you'll hear from, and how each of them supports our caregivers and your family.
Client Care Manager
Writes the care plan, supervises the caregivers who follow it, and updates the plan when your loved one's health or routine changes.
Client Care Coordinator
Your everyday contact, who gets to know your family. Builds the schedule, matches your loved one with the right caregiver and handles the changes when appointments or plans shift.
On-Call Care Coordinator
Covers nights, weekends and holidays, so a call about a missed shift or a sudden change reaches someone who can sort it out.
Human Resources
Looks after the people who look after your family: hiring paperwork, pay, training records and the support that keeps good caregivers with us.
Recruiting Manager
Interviews caregiver applicants and checks their certifications, so the person who comes to your door is someone we'd send to our own parents.
Community Liaison
Keeps in touch with the hospitals, rehab centers, doctors and senior centers nearby, so the people who treat your parent know how to reach us.
Caregivers
The familiar faces in the home, matched to your loved one and trained by us: help with bathing and dressing, meals, medication reminders, errands and an afternoon of good company.
A Bethlehem office for two counties
Our Lehigh Valley office is at 74 W. Broad Street in Bethlehem, open on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. From there the team takes the first calls, visits new clients at home, builds the schedules and matches each family with a caregiver, in every town we serve.
Christine Vander Valk runs the office as Executive Director. She spent her earlier career as a teacher and a family mentor, working alongside families through hard stretches, and she brings the same habit of clear, regular communication to the families we care for now.
Many of the people who call us are adult children: a son whose father is about to come home from the hospital, a daughter two hours away whose mother has stopped cooking. We plan the care around what each household needs, from a few hours of companion care to live-in care.
How we choose caregivers
Every caregiver goes through an interview, a reference check and a criminal background check before meeting a client. Pennsylvania requires a Pennsylvania State Police criminal history record for anyone who works for a home care agency, and an FBI fingerprint check for anyone who has lived in the state for less than two years.
Caregivers are trained in Alzheimer's and dementia care. When we match one with a family, we look at the care your parent needs, their personality and where the caregiver lives, so the same person can keep coming back. If the match isn't working, tell us, and we'll make a change quickly, without a gap in care. If you'd like to work with us, see our Lehigh Valley caregiver jobs.
Towns we serve from Bethlehem
Caregivers from our Bethlehem office care for families in every town below.
- Alburtis
- Allentown
- Bangor
- Bath
- Bethlehem
- Bethlehem Township
- Breinigsville
- Catasauqua
- Center Valley
- Cherryville
- Coopersburg
- Coplay
- Danielsville
- East Texas
- Easton
- Emmaus
- Fogelsville
- Forks Township
- Fountain Hill
- Germansville
- Glendon
- Hellertown
- Laurys Station
- Limeport
- Macungie
- Martins Creek
- Mount Bethel
- Nazareth
- Neffs
- New Tripoli
- Northampton
- Old Zionsville
- Orefield
- Palmer Township
- Pen Argyl
- Portland
- Schnecksville
- Slatedale
- Slatington
- Stockertown
- Tatamy
- Treichlers
- Trexlertown
- Walnutport
- West Easton
- Whitehall
- Williams Township
- Wind Gap
- Zionsville
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