Massachusetts frontline workers resist COVID-19 vaccines as push to make shots mandatory gathers momentum
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 29, 2021
Thousands of first responders, frontline health workers and other public-facing employees in Massachusetts continue to pass on COVID-19 vaccinations, prompting a push for the state government and private...
Better Care Better Jobs Act may be antidote to infrastructure compromise that leaves out home care
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jun 28, 2021
Home care and aging services providers are optimistic the care economy will get the funding it needs, despite being left out of a new infrastructure deal between the White House and a bipartisan team of...
Florida’s minimum wage increase could help and hurt home healthcare
By
Joe Jancsurak
Nov 13, 2020
Voters’ Nov. 3 decision to raise Florida’s minimum wage from $8.56 to $15 per hour by 2026 may put financial pressure on home healthcare agencies, causing some to lay off workers or even go out of...
A new crisis for home care: employee burnout
By
Liza Berger
Mar 26, 2021
Ah. The COVID-19 vaccine is here. It seems to be working. So after all those months of hardship, duty, stress and fatigue, home care providers can rest easy, right? Think again.
MA hospice carve-in model failing beneficiaries, NHPCO charges
By
Diane Eastabrook
Oct 04, 2021
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is blasting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for continuing a two-year Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in demonstration that NHPCO considers...
Peer-to-Peer: Interim Healthcare of the Upstate, continues to expand continuum of care
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 23, 2021
When veteran healthcare executive Charles McDonough landed the CEO post at Interim Healthcare of the Upstate last fall, it was the best of times and worst of times to get into the home healthcare space.
Hiring challenges top providers’ COVID-19 concerns: McKnight’s Home Care Daily survey
By
Liza Berger
Jun 22, 2021
Most McKnight’s Home Care Daily readers agree COVID-19 has negatively affected their businesses. And hiring challenges continue to be providers’ biggest pandemic-related concern.
Peer-to-Peer: Westchester Family Care founder discusses why he is not ready to institute a COVID-19 vaccine...
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 22, 2021
Four years after Glenn Lane launched Mamaroneck, NY-based Westchester Family Care, the inconceivable happened: a global pandemic struck.
Poll finds Americans favor investment in home- and-community-based services in Biden’s infrastructure...
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 14, 2021
Investment in home-and-community-based care for seniors and people with disabilities is helping drive support for President Joseph Biden’s American Jobs Plan.
In move that may serve to grow its workforce, California’s Mission Healthcare purchases university...
By
Diane Eastabrook
Apr 07, 2021
One of California’s largest home health, hospice and palliative care providers continues to expand. Mission Healthcare has announced the acquisition of Loma Linda University Medical Center Home Health.