DNP
Doctor of Nursing Practice. The terminal practice doctorate in nursing, focused on applying evidence to real care settings, leading teams, and improving how care systems work. It is why the CareWELL™ model is written down, measured, and revised.
Spring Hill, Florida
Founder & Clinical Administrator
The nurse is the one running the home.
Care Smith Corp is owned and operated by Dr. Suzanne Levy, a doctoral-prepared, board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner with 14 years in healthcare across diverse clinical settings. She is not a name on the license. She is the clinician who wrote the care model, hires the team, and answers the phone.
Before any of the letters after her name, she worked as a Direct Support Professional in a residential group home in Yonkers, New York. That job is where this home began.
DNPAGPCNP-BCONC14 years in healthcare
"Not just to live, but to thrive."The CareWELL™ commitment
Suzanne LevyFounder & Clinical Administrator, Care Smith Corp
The order matters
She learned the work from the floor first.
Most clinicians meet a group home from the outside, on a consult or a chart review. Dr. Levy started inside one.
1
Direct Support Professional
In a Yonkers group home she did the daily work: personal care, meals, medications passed on time, and the long evenings when a resident is not having a good day. She learned what a good shift looks like and what a bad one costs.
2
Fourteen years in healthcare
She carried that floor-level view through diverse clinical settings, moving from direct care to advanced practice without forgetting who does the work at 6 a.m.
3
Doctoral-prepared nurse practitioner
Board certification in adult-gerontology primary care and a Doctor of Nursing Practice. The training to assess, diagnose, prescribe, and manage chronic conditions, and to design systems of care rather than only deliver it.
4
Founder & Clinical Administrator
She put both halves together in a single-family home in Spring Hill, licensed for up to six residents. The clinician who signs the care plan also knows how the morning medication pass actually goes.
What a nurse practitioner does
What gets noticed when the clinician lives with the details.
An Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner is licensed to assess, diagnose, order and interpret tests, prescribe, and manage the ongoing health of adults, from young adulthood through older age. In many homes that person is a phone call away and sees a resident a few times a year. Here, that person is the administrator.
The difference shows in small things. A change in appetite. A new limp. A medication that is quietly causing constipation or a foggy afternoon. A caregiver may notice and write it down. A nurse practitioner recognizes what it means and acts on it the same day.
Many adults with developmental disabilities cannot say where it hurts. Someone in the house has to be able to read the signs. Care Smith exists to put clinical judgment where the daily observations happen, not down the hall from them.
Care planned at the kitchen table
What the letters mean
Three credentials, in plain English.
Each one is earned separately and each one shows up in how the home is run.
AGPCNP-BC
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified. A national certification to provide primary care to adults, from adolescence through older age: diagnosing, prescribing, and managing chronic conditions. It is the license behind the active health monitoring in the home.
ONC
Orthopaedic Nurse Certified. A specialty certification in bone, joint, and musculoskeletal care. For adults who may have mobility limits, fall risk, or trouble reporting pain, that training matters more than it sounds.
Why a home, not a consulting contract
She wanted to own the whole loop.
A consultant reviews charts, writes recommendations, and leaves. Dr. Levy built Care Smith so the person who designed the care model is also the person accountable for it every day: the hiring, the menu, the medication system, and the follow-through.
Talk with Dr. Levy- Clinical oversight does not rest on one personA Registered Nurse serves as back-up operator, so nursing judgment is in the home when Dr. Levy is not.
- She reads every inquiry herselfForms and emails go to Dr. Levy, not a front desk. She answers personally, usually within one business day.
- You will hear it straightIf Care Smith is not the right fit for your family member, she will say so on the first call.