‘Everybody Is Facing This Problem’: Staffing Struggles Force In-Home Care Providers to Turn Away Business

Home-based care providers appear to have reached a dangerous growth plateau. Unfortunately, I expect that it’s going to be a difficult one to overcome. After several years of steady growth, demand for in-home care has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic, with non-medical home care operators and skilled home health providers both so busy they’ve had […]

How Home-Based Care Companies Are Carving Out a Space in Hospital-at-Home Programs

When it comes to running a successful hospital-at-home model, many have stressed the importance of having a home care component to complement clinical service offerings and provide assistance with patients’ everyday activities. For some home care providers, this fact — and the launch of several new hospital-at-home programs since the start of the pandemic — […]

CMS Hospital-at-Home Program Closing In On 200 Participants

The hospital-at-home concept was developed long ago, but did not gain popularity until the COVID-19 crisis. And while its stalling was due to logistical and reimbursement problems, experts believe it’s finally here to stay. For home health and home care providers, that means another area to deliver their expertise and increase their bottom lines. As […]