Managing Partner Bob Roth helped found Cypress HomeCare Solutions with his family in 1994. With 28 years of consumer products, health care and technology experience, Bob is considered an innovator of technologies used to enhance communication and effectively support customers and peers.
Cypress HomeCare Solutions has been honored to receive a number of awards over the years. In October 2007 they were awarded Small Business of the Year award from Goodwill Industries of Central Arizona. Cypress was also named one of the 2009 Comerica Bank Arizona Companies to Watch. Cypress HomeCare Solutions finished ranked in the top 3 Home Health Care Agencies in Arizona Business Magazine’s “Ranking Arizona” Edition, the past 6 consecutive years. This year and the year before Cypress received the #1 ranking for Arizona’s Top Arizona Home Care Agencies. Most recently Bob and his father Sheldon Roth were nominated for the Spirit of Philanthropy Award for their generosity and community involvement.
Over the past seven years, Bob has actively supported the Alzheimer’s Association – Desert Southwest Chapter. For four consecutive years, Bob served as Co-Chair for the Alzheimer’s Association’s marquee fund raising event, Memory Walk. He also served three terms on the Golf Committee and three terms on the Alzheimer’s Association’s Development Committee. In 2008 Bob was invited to join the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute’s Development Board and in December 2009 Bob was invited to join the Banner Alzheimer’s Foundation Board. Bob and his wife Susie were recently appointed 2012–2013 Benefactor Chairs for the Banner Health Foundation and in December 2011 Bob was nominated to the Board of Directors for the Arizona Geriatrics Society.
Bob’s background in consumer products marketing and his creative approach to marketing in home care has afforded him invitations to join the faculty and be an advisor to the following associations: National Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), Private Duty Home Care Association (PDHCA), Decisions Health and Private Duty Insider, and National Private Duty Association (NPDA). In 2009 Bob was asked to join the board for PDHCA.
Bob and his wife Susie have three daughters; Sami-Jo (19), Allison (17) and Jessica (14). Bob is a graduate of Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management, with a minor in Marketing. Bob played collegiate lacrosse for Ithaca College.
Scott Spangler is Cypress HomeCare Solutions’ Chief Operating Officer. With 25 years of health care, non-profit, retail and sales experience, Scott is considered an expert in operations and human resources.
Prior to leading the day-to-day operations at Cypress, Scott was the vice president of human resources for Global Trade Centers, the district manager for Kelly Home Care as well as the director of health and safety services for the Arizona chapter of the American Red Cross. Over the course of his career, Scott was charged with optimizing operational systems and procedures, positioning companies for sale and the development and execution of strategic plans and reorganizations. Scott has also worked as a human resources consultant with John C. Lincoln Health Network and spent seven years with United Blood Services with areas of responsibility in donor recruitment, public relations and community relations. Scott began his career working with his brother running his family’s mortuary business where he was a licensed California embalmer and funeral director.
Scott’s past and present board and committee affiliations include Arizona Hospice Ethics Committee member, Private Duty Home Care Faculty and Presenter and American Red Cross National Convention Committee Member. He is also active with the Alzheimer’s Association, Rotary International, the Paiute Neighborhood Center, Metro Phoenix Film Board, Arizona State Soccer Association and Scottsdale Leadership, Class VII
Our Client Services Representative Laurie Fox joined the Cypress team in 2007 and has been in the homecare industry since 1999. In her role, Laurie opens many of the new client cases and indirectly oversees more than 200 caregivers in the field by performing supervisory visits at client homes on an ongoing basis. It is her passion to direct the client and their families to the perfect resource that will help improve the quality of their lives. In her many years in the homecare field, she has witnessed how caregivers enjoy listening, helping and being a companion to the client.
In 2011, Laurie became a Certified Senior Advisor through the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, a distinction reserved for professionals trained in effectively helping the senior population. Laurie also serves on Sun Health Foundation Planned Giving Committee and is a founding member of the West Valley Professional Roundtable. She is also active with the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute as a Certified Memory Trainer. Previously, Laurie was a member of the Board of Directors for the Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce and the Surprise Chamber of Commerce. She acted as president of Human Services Professionals and assisted as co-chair of the 2008 and 2009 Alzheimer Association’s Phoenix Memory Walk.
While caring for her mother Opal, Laurie sought assistance in how to be a better caregiver from Duet: Partners in Health & Aging. Duet, a non-profit in Phoenix promoting health and well-being through a broad range of services to older adults who need one-on-one support, profiled Laurie and her mother’s wonderful story at their 2010 Duet 20th Annual Poinsettia Tea and again at the 2011 Duet Jazz Cabaret. See how Laurie describes Duet’s support and her ability to reconnect with her mom here. In 2012, Laurie will be serving as a member of Duet’s Poinsettia Tea Sponsorship Committee.
Laurie’s goal is to change lives, one day at a time, every day.
Managing Partner Bob Roth helped found Cypress HomeCare Solutions with his family in 1994. With 28 years of consumer products, health care and technology experience, Bob is considered an innovator of technologies used to enhance communication and effectively support customers and peers.
Scott Spangler is Cypress HomeCare Solutions’ Chief Operating Officer. With 25 years of health care, non-profit, retail and sales experience, Scott is considered an expert in operations and human resources.
Our Client Services Representative Laurie Fox joined the Cypress team in 2007 and has been in the homecare industry since 1999. In her role, Laurie opens many of the new client cases and indirectly oversees more than 200 caregivers in the field by performing supervisory visits at client homes on an ongoing basis. It is her passion to direct the client and their families to the perfect resource that will help improve the quality of their lives. In her many years in the homecare field, she has witnessed how caregivers enjoy listening, helping and being a companion to the client.