APC Home Health Service, Inc.


APC Home Health Service, Inc. was founded in 1982 by Tere and Frank Painter. Back then, it was a small in-home health service agency located in Harlingen, TX, providing much-needed home health care services to under-served clients. Since then, it has evolved into a comprehensive health care system, employing more than 2,000 employees and offering:



  • Home Health Care - Skilled Intermittent Nursing and Therapy
  • Star+Plus Waiver - Attendant Services
  • Personal Assistance Services - PAS
  • Private Duty Nursing - hourly skilled & personal care
  • Home-based Case Management
  • Home-based Disease Management Programs
  • Transitional Care Program
  • Long-Term Care Program
  • Adult day care facilities


As the need for high quality, cost effective health care services grew, the company expanded to other under-served counties in Texas. Clients and physicians value our services and we are now one of the largest in-home care organizations in the Rio Grande Valley, providing services to thousands of clients.


Our current divisions and business locations include:



  • APC Home Health Service, Inc.:  Harlingen & Corpus Christi
  • APC Homemakers:  Harlingen, Brownsville, Pharr, Rio Grande City, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Falfurrias, Corpus Christi, & El Paso
  • Nurse Placement Services of Harlingen, Inc.:  Harlingen & Corpus Christi
  • TLC Adult Day Care Centers, Inc.: Eagle Pass (2 Centers), Del Rio, & Corpus Christi


We accept all Medicaid Managed Care Organizations and most insurance to make in-home care more affordable. Plans we currently accept are Traditional Medicaid & Medicare, Star and StarPlus Medicaid Managed Care Plans, Molina, Amerigroup, Superior, Driscoll Health Plan, Cigna HealthSpring, United HealthCare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, AETNA, Beech Street: A Multiplan Network, First Health, Galaxy Health Network, HumanaChoice (PPO), MultiPlan PPO.