Katherine Bunny Dachs has been busy. The 32-year-old Baltimore resident and businesswoman is also a wife—to attorney Yaakov Dachs—and the mother of four young children—Lizzy, 13, Ari, 6, Henna, 2, and Rumi, 1. The family belongs to Ohr Hachaim Congregation in Pikesville.
Dachs owns Bunny’s Home Care, a boutique home care business that provides a range of services to seniors in the Baltimore metropolitan area. These services include customized personal home care – in the form of trained and certified nursing assistants and geriatric nursing assistants – who help seniors age in place so that they might “live their lives with their safety, dignity, and independence intact.”
Dachs’ journey to owning a health care business was dotted with inspiration from her parents, with hard work and determination, and with a relentless desire to treat others with dignity and with respect, values passed on by her parents.
Katherine Bunny – Chaya Buna is Dachs’ Hebrew name, with Bunny chosen by her mother as her middle name – grew up in Baltimore. She attended Bais Yaakov Baltimore from elementary through high school, and as a teenager worked with her father in his pharmacy, initially located in a senior adult day care center. The pharmacy later relocated to Seven Mile Market.
Dachs’ experience at her father’s pharmacy gave her the opportunity to develop relationships with her father’s clients over the years. Dachs shared that seeing the decline of people she had come to know for years was difficult.
After high school, Dachs spent a year in Israel, then moved back to Baltimore to get married. She supported her husband through law school, working as a manager for a medical practice in Philadelphia while her husband attended University of Pennsylvania Law School. While working full time, Dachs also took undergraduate online classes at Drexel University on weekends, earning her Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration.
Dachs then worked with the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island after Dachs’ husband finished law school and the family moved to New York. It was at the JCC that Dachs was exposed to several facets of health care services. “I got a glimpse of everything,” Dachs remarked, as the JCC’s heath care division also provided services for Holocaust survivors.
And, while working a full-time job in New York, and pregnant with her second child, Dachs also worked on her master’s degree, earning an MBA in Business Administration with a focus on health care, from Touro University.
By the time Dachs moved back to Baltimore with her family between 2017 and 2018, she knew she loved the home care field and loved the idea of playing a role in helping seniors age in place.
She opened Bunny’s Home Care in 2019, a year before the pandemic turned everyone’s world upside down. “I had six clients when the pandemic hit,” Dachs remarked, “then COVID hit, and people did not want other people coming into their homes. Then, suddenly, people were calling because they needed help in their homes.”
Four years after the pandemic, Bunny’s Home Care is thriving, propelled by Dachs’ determination to ensure high quality services, and respect for the individual.
“My parents taught me to love every person, and to appreciate who they are,” Dachs shared, “they taught us to love, to welcome, to respect everyone. I grew up in the most open, most loving home,” values that have inspired Dachs and that drive her desire to ensure that seniors age with dignity and independence in their home.
“Every client is unique,” Dachs continued, adding, “everyone is an individual, and we work to ensure that we take those individual needs with the highest regard when providing our services, and tailoring our services with those specific needs in mind.”
