Workforce

With home care agencies at a crossroads, it’s time for operators to focus on what they can control and, specifically, how they manage their workforce and scheduling.

A partnership between Medical Mutual, Conduit Health Services and hospital-at-home provider DispatchHealth has resulted in high rates of consumer satisfaction.

Eighty-eight percent of nurses working in nursing homes and residential care facilities and in home healthcare have experienced racism or discrimination from residents, patients or clients, according to...

If you want to get a sense of the scale and scope of the workforce shortage across the home care continuum — home care, home health and hospice — check out the 14th edition of the Benchmarking Report...

The workforce shortage has had a staggering effect on staffing within the personal care, home health and hospice industries. But providers may be responding to it in the wrong way, a new report from Home...

Advocates of New York state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) agencies are concerned that as many as 200 agencies will close this year without legislation to stop it.

In support of the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) said earlier this month that it is awarding $20 million in funding to improve support...

With staffing shortages plaguing providers across healthcare, including home care, investing in the education and training of direct care workers (DCWs) could help stabilize the industry and improve the...

The healthcare industry is nearing a breaking point due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 3.925% behavioral rate cut enacted in January, home care leaders said recently. 

House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott  (D-VA) introduced a bill last week that would reauthorize the Department of Labor’s Registered Apprentice program.