Jos de Blok is the founder and CEO of Buurtzorg (neighborhood nursing), a Dutch organization with more than 15,000 employees, offering community based (home) care services to more than 80,000 patients a year. Founded in 2006 with a team of four nurses, Buurtzorg has transformed home-based healthcare and has created an innovave method for nursing care at home. Before establishing Buurtzorg, Jos had several senior management positions in home care organizations including Director Innovations for medical services.

As a community-based and client centered organization, Buurtzorg connects highly qualified licensed nurses and clients to create positive and proactive solutions that are effective, holistic, and sustainable. Organized in small autonomous teams of up to 12 nurses within a neighborhood-sized care area, Buurtzorg nurses bring groundbreaking synergy and expertise in a direct and connected relationship between the caregiver and client. Buurtzorg has succeeded in reducing administrave burden for nurses, improving quality of care and raising work satisfaction for their employees (Buurtzorg was awarded five times as employer of the year in the Netherlands).

Buurtzorg is supported by an innovave IT system and works without a management structure. The company’s internationalization started by launching in countries like Sweden, Japan, China, Austria, Germany, Denmark, France and UK.