On Friday, Feb. 28, just after 10 p.m. PT, Brent Korte — chief home care officer at EvergreenHealth — got a call that changed everything. It was from his boss. “She asked me if I was sitting down,” Korte said. “She told me that EvergreenHealth not only had patients who had tested positive for COVID-19, […]
As the number of Americans with coronavirus climbs, health care providers are struggling to get the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need to keep workers safe and to prevent the spread of the virus. PPE includes items such as gloves and masks, which are especially important for home-based care workers, who serve the often frail […]
Daily pay tools — services that grant employees faster access to their earnings — have been met with both skepticism and praise within the context of curbing the caregiver crisis. But for New York-based Rockaway Home Care, they’ve been a major boon. The nonprofit agency, which has six home care locations across the greater New […]
The opportunity for home-based care providers to help fill care gaps within senior living communities appears to be greater than ever, as the vast majority of operators cite staffing as their No. 1 challenge. In recent years, occupancy has been top of mind for most U.S. senior living operators, an anxiety that has somewhat overshadowed […]
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) is closing a Brentwood, Tennessee, satellite office near its headquarters. In total, the closure will impact 58 jobs within Brookdale’s health care services division, which includes home health and hospice care. With its home health segment lagging behind, the company announced there would be a shake-up on a Q4 […]
Nascentia Health, a home-focused health system based in New York, recently notified its staff that it was forced to lay off 71 employees across 48 counties. The nonprofit, which formerly employed nearly 800 employees, was forced to do so because of New York’s Medicaid cuts. The company estimates that it will lose $400 million from […]
Eden Health — the home services division of the Vancouver, Washington-based EmpRes Healthcare Management LLC — is growing. That’s good news for the Eden workers that have a stake in the business, which happens to be almost all of them. EmpRes and Eden are employee-owned. In 2008, Dale Patterson decided that he wanted to do […]
In an effort to address the growing demand for home care services and worsening labor crunch, one U.S. lawmaker has introduced a bill that could help providers raise wages for their caregivers. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced S. 3277 — the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Infrastructure Improvement Act — into the U.S. Senate on […]
Home health providers aggressively changing how they’re delivering physical, occupational and speech therapy services need to remember one thing: The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is watching. Since Jan. 1, several industry-leading providers that Home Health Care News has connected with in the aftermath of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) have reaffirmed […]
Gento — formerly known as Nursing Without Walls — has received $5 million in Series A funding from Palisades Growth Capital to continue expanding its on-demand staffing and care management services. Founded in 2016, the Los Angeles-based Gento provides staffing solutions for home-based care providers and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) alike. The company, which has […]