The COVID-19 emergency, vaccination mandates and other challenges have served as a powder keg in relation to the staffing pressures home care providers were already facing. Yet some providers – including Help at Home and Interim HealthCare – have been able to at least partially defuse the explosive situation via dedicated recruitment and retention strategies. […]
Home-based care providers are short on workers. It’s the largest, most universal issue facing the home care and home health industries right now. And the problem is being worsened by bottom-line headwinds that come with hiring contract workers meant to fill the void. Almost every publicly traded home health company mentioned the drag that contract […]
Home health providers have felt the full force of the U.S. nursing shortage this year. But it’s important to remember that some of those pressures are short term in nature and tied to the public health emergency, LHC Group Inc. (Nasdaq: LHCG) President and COO Joshua Proffitt said Monday. That’s especially true in regard to […]
For an overwhelming majority of caregivers, access to further education is a factor when determining if they’ll accept a job offer at a home care agency. Additionally, the likelihood of caregivers staying at their current agency increases when they’re offered resources to further their education. That’s according to a new survey conducted by CareAcademy, a […]
Home health agencies continued to make a major contribution to the U.S. economy last year, despite the harsh headwinds brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, home health agencies contributed toward 1.49 million jobs in 2020, according to the most recent Home Health Chartbook, released annually by the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation […]
Walmart’s latest health care hire Walmart has reportedly snagged Dr. David Carmouche from Louisiana-based Ochsner Health to lead its expansion into retail health care. Walmart officially kicked off its health care strategy in 2019 when it opened its first 10,000-square-foot health center in Dallas, Georgia. That initial location even included an on-site connection to home […]
ShiftMed – a mobile platform that acts as a liaison between health care providers and workers – announced Wednesday that it has raised $45 million in funding. The McLean, Virginia-based company has experienced explosive growth of late. While it began 2021 in just 10 markets across the country, it will finish the year in 56. […]
Almost half of U.S. nurses are at least “somewhat likely” to leave their professions in the upcoming two years, according to a new report from ShiftMed. Of those workers, 38% plan to pursue non-patient facing roles in health care, while 31% plan on leaving health care altogether. “I would say this number was shocking,” Todd […]
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model was ahead of its time. Created close to a half century ago, it fits extremely well with the health care issues that seniors are facing in 2021. There are currently 140 PACE programs operating 272 PACE centers across the U.S., serving 55,000 total participants, according […]
Most in-home care providers tried searching for silver linings during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the tragic circumstances, for example, some predicted that the economic instability caused by COVID-19 would translate into new recruitment opportunities for workforce-challenged providers. “If restaurant and hospitality workers were laid off, maybe they would find a new […]
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