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<p>PITTSTON &#8212; A new office in the city brought Mark Baiada back to Pittston for the first time in more than 12 years.</p><p>Baiada, founder of BAYADA Home Health Care, visited his company&#8217;s new pediatrics location at 33 N. Main St. this week to get himself acquainted with the space.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s really nice.&#8221;</p><p>Baiada said he was visiting nearby Marywood University in Scranton, so he figured it was the perfect chance to stop by.</p><p>The office opened in May, only a few months after the building was occupied by gift store Live With It by Lora Hobbs.</p><p>Barbara Pirrella-Sico, regional director for BAYADA Pediatrics, will be working out of Pittston after she elected to leave the Wilkes-Barre location.</p><p>&#8220;We just got so busy that we had to open an additional office and hire additional people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was either all of them move out, or I move out. So, I did the right thing. I moved out, gave them my office space, but now I have a Pittston office space &#8212; my hometown. And I wanted a Main Street presence.&#8221;</p><p>BAYADA was founded in the mid-1970s by Baiada when he was just 27.</p><p>&#8220;Everybody in my family had a business and I wanted to have my own,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I wanted something in helping other people, so that was important to me. And (health care) was also a growing need across the country.&#8221;</p><p>BAYADA Pediatrics focuses on home health care for sick children and has 27 different offices within Pennsylvania and serves almost 2,000 clients.</p><p>With a growing need for nurses, the hope is that being across the street from Geisinger Careworks will play to its favor.</p><p>&#8220;One of the reasons we wanted to be on Main Street was to attract nurses&#8217; attention,&#8221; Baiada said. &#8220;Our clients need more nurses than we can currently supply. We want compassionate and excellently reliable pediatric nurses.&#8221;</p><p>With BAYADA continuing to grow, along with Pittston&#8217;s Main Street, Baiada hopes both can help each other.</p><p>His main office is in Moorestown, N.J. and he hasn&#8217;t visited the city since 2006, but he said there is a huge difference between Pittston then and now.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable how it&#8217;s grown and how it serves so many more people,&#8221; Baiada said.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Helen Schmid, a BAYADA director, takes a photo of Barbara Pirrello-Sico, pediatric regional director, and Mark Baiada, chairman of BAYADA Home Health Care, in front of the recently opened pediatric administration office in downtown Pittston. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Bayada-Visit-2-1-1-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Helen Schmid, a BAYADA director, takes a photo of Barbara Pirrello-Sico, pediatric regional director, and Mark Baiada, chairman of BAYADA Home Health Care, in front of the recently opened pediatric administration office in downtown Pittston. </caption0><photoCredit0>Tony Callaio | For Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Bayada-Visit-3-1-1-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Joleen Lazecki, co-chair of the Pittston City Art Walk, stands next to Mark Baiada, BAYADA Home Health Care chairman, at the company&#8217;s new office space in the city&#8217;s downtown. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Bayada-Visit-3-1-1-1.jpg</photo1><caption1>Joleen Lazecki, co-chair of the Pittston City Art Walk, stands next to Mark Baiada, BAYADA Home Health Care chairman, at the company&#8217;s new office space in the city&#8217;s downtown. </caption1><photoCredit1>Tony Callaio | For Times Leader </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Bayada-Visit-1-1-1-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Mark Baiada, chairman of BAYADA Home Health Care, made a stop at the new pediatric administration office in Pittston this week. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_Bayada-Visit-1-1-1-1.jpg</photo2><caption2>Mark Baiada, chairman of BAYADA Home Health Care, made a stop at the new pediatric administration office in Pittston this week. </caption2><photoCredit2>Tony Callaio | For Times Leader </photoCredit2></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>New office opened in May</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jimmy Fisher</p><p>jfisher@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jimmy Fisher at 570-704-3972 or on Twitter @SD_JimmyFisher</p></shirttailMeta></div>

BAYADA Home Health Care founder visits new Pittston location