Comfi-Kare Home Care is a nurse-led, non-medical home care agency headquartered at 1395 Piccard Drive, Rockville, MD 20850. Founded by Magna Johnston, MSN, CMSRN, CSA, the agency serves Montgomery, Howard, and Frederick Counties with the proprietary White Glove Caregiver Program™ and CareOps HQ quality platform — providing RN-supervised care plans for seniors aging at home.
30
years of nursing experience
24-48 hrs
to nurse-supervised care at home
If you’ve landed on this page, something has shifted at home.
Maybe Mom isn’t safe alone anymore. Maybe Dad came home from Shady Grove or Suburban Hospital with a stack of discharge paperwork that reads like a foreign language. Maybe you’re a daughter in Bethesda, a son in Frederick, or a spouse in Potomac — quietly carrying a weight you didn’t expect to carry this year.
You’ve read the same five sentences on a dozen agency websites. They all sound the same. And underneath all of it is the question you keep coming back to at midnight:
“Who can I actually trust with my parent?”
That question is why Comfi-Kare exists. And the rest of this page is our honest answer.
Meet Your Guide
You don’t need another sales pitch. You need someone who has stood in the same hospital corridors you’re walking now — and who knows what happens next.
Comfi-Kare is led by Magna Johnston, MSN, CMSRN, CSA — a Registered Nurse with nearly three decades of bedside, hospice, and home care experience. Most home care agencies are run by businesspeople who hire nurses.
That difference shows up in everything we do — from how we screen caregivers, to how we write care plans, to who picks up the phone when something feels off at 9pm on a Sunday.
Why Comfi-Kare Exists
A frail patient handed a stack of paperwork. A daughter trying to memorize medication schedules on her phone. A son in the hallway, on the phone with his boss, trying to figure out who would actually be at the house when Mom got home.
Families were sent home with instructions — but with no one trained to actually carry them out.
Then they’d come back. Sometimes within weeks, sometimes within days. A fall. A missed dose. A wound that wasn’t watched. A medication interaction nobody flagged. Not because the family didn’t care — they cared more than anyone — but because the system had handed them an impossible job and called it discharge.
Comfi-Kare exists to close that gap.
We are the people who show up after the hospital sends your loved one home. We are the trained eyes that catch the early signs. We are the calm voice on the phone when something doesn’t feel right.
And because Magna built this agency from a clinical lens, every care plan is reviewed with the question a nurse asks first:
That single question changes everything about how care gets delivered.
What Makes Us Different
Most agencies vet caregivers for the bare minimum: a background check and a pulse. We don’t think that’s good enough for your father.
Every Comfi-Kare caregiver completes our proprietary White Glove training, which goes beyond clinical basics into the things that actually matter at the kitchen table:
A White Glove caregiver doesn’t just complete tasks. They notice. They report. They communicate. They treat your parent the way they’d want their own parent treated.
The Technology Behind Our Care
Behind every White Glove caregiver is a technology platform you’ll never see, but you will feel its effects.
CareOpsHQ is our proprietary recruiting, training, and quality-management system. It’s how we screen, train, and continuously evaluate every caregiver in our pool. It’s how we match the right person to the right home. It’s how we hold our team to a standard most agencies can’t operationally enforce.
It is, quite literally, the engine that makes White Glove possible at scale, and it’s the reason a small, intentional agency like Comfi-Kare can deliver consistency you’d expect from a much larger one.
Meet The Team
You will know the people running your loved one’s care by name.
Magna Johnston, MSN, CMSRN, CSA
Magna is a Registered Nurse and Certified Senior Care Advisor whose career in senior care began in 1997. She is a graduate of Kettering College of Medical Arts, College of Notre Dame, and Walden University.
Her clinical background spans Medical-Surgical, Oncology, Cardiac, Emergency Room, and Hospice care. After serving as a homecare case manager and leadership educator, Magna founded Comfi-Kare to bridge the gap between hospital discharge and safe aging-at-home — bringing the clinical oversight that’s typically missing from non-medical agencies.
When she isn’t reviewing care plans, you’ll find her training the next generation of caregivers and developing the systems behind CareOps HQ.
Jean
Operations Manager
With a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and extensive healthcare management experience, Jean oversees daily operations and patient scheduling. She ensures strict compliance with Maryland healthcare regulations and keeps communication flowing smoothly between our administrative team and the families we serve.
Cerilyn, RN
Client Coordinator
A Registered Nurse and our primary Client Coordinator, Cerilyn is the vital link between families and our care team. She personally walks every new family through their initial questions, conducts thorough follow-ups, and makes sure no one feels lost in the process. She also designs the educational materials that help our seniors and their families stay informed.
1395 Piccard Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
Rockville (20850, 20852, 20854) · Bethesda (20814, 20816, 20817) · Potomac (20854) · Gaithersburg (20877, 20878, 20879) · Germantown (20874, 20876) · Silver Spring · Olney
Columbia · Ellicott City
Frederick and surrounding communities
We work closely with discharge planners and care teams at:
If your family member is being discharged from one of these hospitals — or any Maryland facility — we can typically have nurse-supervised care in place within 24–48 hours.
Not sure if we serve your community? Call (240) 716-6183 and we’ll tell you honestly.
Our 3-Step Care Process
Magna or one of our RNs comes to your home, listens to your situation, and gives you honest answers — even if we’re not the right fit. This is not a sales call.
We match using both clinical needs and personality fit. You meet your caregiver before care officially begins.
Most families are up and running within two days of the assessment. No long onboarding, no contracts you can’t get out of.
What’s at Stake When Families Wait
We say this gently, but we have to say it clearly:
waiting is rarely free.
Every week without proper support, the families we talk to describe the same things:
Home care isn’t only about tasks. It’s about catching the small problems before they become hospital admissions — and protecting the family from the kind of caregiver burnout that fractures relationships and health.
What “Working” Looks Like
Here is what families tell us, a few weeks in.
They sleep through the night again. The frantic phone calls from the hospital stop. Mom is laughing at something on the TV. Dad has someone to walk with. The daughter who hadn’t sat down in months is, for the first time in a long time, just being a daughter again — not a case manager, not a scheduler, not a pharmacist, not the one holding everything up.
That is the actual product we sell. Everything else is logistics.
Frequently Asked Questions
Comfi-Kare is nurse-led. Our founder, Magna Johnston (MSN, CMSRN, CSA), personally oversees clinical care plans — a level of RN supervision most non-medical agencies don’t provide. We also use our proprietary White Glove Caregiver Program™ and CareOps HQ technology platform to maintain caregiver quality at a standard above industry norms.
Most families begin care within 24–48 hours of their initial nurse-led assessment.
Home care in Maryland generally ranges from $32–$45 per hour in 2026. Comfi-Kare’s rates reflect our nurse-supervised model and White Glove caregiver training, which adds clinical oversight that most generic agencies don’t include.
Yes. Comfi-Kare meets all Maryland Department of Health requirements for non-medical home care, including caregiver background checks, training mandates, and ongoing compliance.
Yes. We coordinate regularly with discharge planners at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove, Suburban Hospital, Howard County General, and Frederick Health Hospital.
Yes. As Clinical Director, Magna is involved in initial assessments and complex care plans. You’re not handed off to a call center.
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If you’d like to talk through your situation with someone who has actually done this work for thirty years, we’d be honored.
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