Our history

Exemplar Health Care is founded as a healthcare management consultancy and training firm.

We identified a lack of appropriate care homes for young adults living with complex needs, and acquired our first five care homes to meet this gap in the care market.

In 2003, we opened Greenside Court in Rotherham, Exemplar Health Care’s first complex needs care home.

In 2004, we opened Fairwinds in Rotherham.

In 2005, we opened Fairburn Vale and Fairburn Mews in Castleford.

In 2006, we opened Dearnevale and Neville Court in Barnsley, Thames House in Rochdale, and Scotia Heights in Stoke-On-Trent. We also acquired the former Hollywell Court care home in Sheffield, and renamed it Willowbeck.

In 2007, we opened Lonnen Grove in Rotherham and Bridgewood Mews in Dudley.

In 2008, we opened Parkside in Dudley, Quarryfields in Doncaster and Church Walk in Rochdale.

In 2009, we opened Meadowcroft, Pathways and Eastlands in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Havenmere in Immingham and Kavanagh Place in Liverpool.

In 2010, we opened Otterburn in Birmingham and Ravensdale in Leeds.

In 2011, we opened Yarningdale in Ripley.

In 2016, Agilitas, a European private equity firm, led a management buyout of Exemplar Health Care. The same year, we reviewed our model and started developing OneCare services alongside our care homes to provide a step-in and step-out service to independent living.

In 2018, we opened Lakeview in Leigh. In March our Dearnevale care home in Barnsley was rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission. We also introduced Exemplar Learning Management System (ELMS), our eLearning platform, and the My Exemplar app for internal colleagues, as part of our digital transformation journey.

In 2019, we opened Brook View in Liverpool, St Andrew’s Court in Hull, Copperfields in Leeds and Ribble View in Preston.

In September 2020, we opened Tyne Grange, our first care home in the North East of England. In November 2020, the ownership of Exemplar Health Care transferred to Ares, a global investment company.

In 2021, we opened Wykewood, our first care home in Bradford, Marmaduke in Hull, Blackmoor in Birmingham and Bennett Court in South Elmsall. We excelled in our commitment to colleague development, achieving certification with the CPD Certification Service for three of our in-house training programmes and Bild ACT certification for our Exemplar Positive Behaviour Support training.

We opened two homes in new areas, Cheshire Springs in Ellesmere Port and Edgewater in Wallasey. In June 2022, Tyne Grange in Newcastle upon Tyne became our fourth ‘Outstanding’ CQC rated care home. In November 2022, less than a year after opening, Bennett Court was rated ‘Good’ by CQC.

So far in 2023, we've opened Roseside in Liverpool, Wheldale Heights in Castleford, Tees Grange, our first home in Stockton-on-Tees, Adswood Lodge, our first home in Stockport, and Shire Oaks Court, our first home in Walsall. We also opened nine brand-new apartments at Bennett Court in South Elmsall. We’re on site building new care homes in Sunderland, Warrington, Mexborough, Knowsley, Leeds, Ashton-under-Lyne, Telford and Burnley.