CareWorx expands Summerside offices into historic Holman Centre

With a swish of giant scissors, the historic Holman Centre building in downtown Summersideofficially welcomedthe staff of IT management company CareWorxto their new office space during a grand opening event Thursday morning.

The Ontario-based CareWorxhas operatedelsewhere in Summersidesince 2013. Now the staff on P.E.I. make up half of the company'sworkforce.

The Summersidestaff work for different organizations, providing IT service management, automation, security and a service desk to assist clients with their technologicalneeds.

"We have been here for about fiveyears and have doubled in size in the last 12 months and the result of that is where we are today," said CareWorxCEOMark Scott.

Health support

Summerside will also be the anchor of the company'sHealth IT cluster. It helps manage the CareWorxsenior care division. More than 70,000 CareWorx touch screensare operated in thousands of health-care facilities.

"We support about 5,000 of the 18,000 long-term care facilities[and] their technologies across North America," Scott said.

If there areany issues with the technology, when someone picks up a phone to call for help, they will most likely hear their technical support answer fromSummerside.

The companyhas approximately 80 staff members working out of theHolman Centreoffices and isexpecting to hit 100 by the end of 2018.

"It's great to have more tenants in the Holman Centre because that is in downtownSummerside," said P.E.I. Economic Development Minister Chris Palmer.

"It will continue to spur on the economy here. There will be employees here that will be spending money in the local economy and we think that is great news and a great boost for ourdowntown."

More P.E.I. news