When Brandon Scarborough, co-founder of Power Group worksite division and PowerEnroll at Power Group Cos. in Overland Park, Kan., first jumped into the benefits business, it was at Healthcare Services Group where he focused on offering benefits services to housekeeping and dietary employees in nursing homes. But there was a problem. Scarborough quickly learned many of these employees made little in wages and couldn’t afford the available benefits, he explains.  

“I found out these employees got offered basically nothing because they didn’t make enough money and couldn’t afford benefits, so I made a couple of phone calls to friends I knew were in the insurance industry to see about figuring out a way to offer these employees some sort of benefits,” Scarborough says. “I decided I knew enough people in the nursing home industry that I could start a company and be successful at offering benefits.”

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