Background
Griswold, Jean C. was born on July 30, 1930 in New York City. Daughter of Raymond Guede and Irene (Secord) Coghlan.
home health services administrator
Griswold, Jean C. was born on July 30, 1930 in New York City. Daughter of Raymond Guede and Irene (Secord) Coghlan.
Bachelor, Douglass College, 1952. Master of Education, Rutgers University, 1956. Postgraduate, University Pennsylvania.
She has been the subject of ongoing press attention because she founded a successful corporation despite being confined to a wheelchair because she suffers from Multiple Sclerosis. Jean Griswold earned her bachelor"s degree in economics and business administration from Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1952. She earned her master"s degree in counseling from Rutgers University in 1956.
Early career Griswold worked as a guidance counselor at Westfield High School, then as a counselor at the Lutheran Home for the Aged.
Founding the home care company In 1982 Griswold founded a home care company for the elderly and disabled. Initially called Overnight Sitting Service prompted by her discovery that there was no company offering overnight companionship for the frail elderly.
The first caregivers Griswold hired when she started the company working from her dining room table were seminary students who stayed nights with the elderly. According to Incorporated. (magazine) by 1989 the company was a $10-million, multi-state business.
The company was soon renamed Special Care Incorporated., then renamed Griswold Home Care.
In 2005 it was described by the Philadelphia Business Journal as, "the nation"s largest, privately owned nonmedical home-care company." By 2006 the company had 87 franchises in 16 states and some outside the United States. In 2009 it had 103 franchises. Griswold, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was in a wheelchair when she founded the company, and continues to work from her wheelchair.
In 1995 the company attracted media attention when one of its home care employees was arrested while buying illegal drugs, and press reports focused on the fact that since the company does not provide medical services, its employees are not required to be certified and may not be closely supervised.
In 2003–2004 Griswold was Entrepreneur in Residence at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was inducted to the Hall of Distinguished Alumni of Rutgers University in 1995.
She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Holy Family University in Philadelphia.
Member National Association of Female Executives, National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Married Lincoln Tracy Griswold, March 29, 1931.