Vaccine mandates affecting home health workers likely to spur more legal challenges
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 21, 2021
The federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting home healthcare workers is likely to draw a number of legal challenges, especially when it comes to medical and religious exemptions.
COVID-19’s lesson about the importance of self-directed care
By
Greg Strobel
Aug 12, 2021
While it’s hard to find a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic, one can be found in the home healthcare industry, where the COVID-19 crisis reinforced the critical need for flexible and affordable...
Encompass Health: Home healthcare, hospice likely to bounce back from pandemic by later this year
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 12, 2021
Encompass Health is expecting home healthcare and hospice census to return to pre-pandemic levels by the second half of the year.
Addus HomeCare looks to expand home healthcare as pandemic wanes
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 05, 2021
Addus HomeCare is joining the growing league of providers on the search for home healthcare agencies. During a call with analysts on Tuesday, the Frisco, TX-based company said it hoped to score a handful...
Pandemic’s impact on home healthcare could last longer than expected
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 18, 2021
As the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is increasing nationwide, a new study finds home healthcare agencies could feel repercussions from the pandemic longer than they might have expected.
Addus powers through the pandemic, but challenges remain
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 04, 2021
Addus HomeCare executives admitted Tuesday the COVID-19 delta variant is challenging the home care industry as it tries to emerge from the 17-month global pandemic.
Mandate overreach? Rhode Island offers cautionary tale
By
Liza Berger
Sep 03, 2021
It seems to me that we could use a standardized healthcare policy regarding mandates right about now.
Workers at home health agencies receiving Medicare, Medicaid must get vaccinated: CMS
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 09, 2021
President Biden on Thursday applied excessively more pressure on employees at home health agencies to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Home health workers at agencies receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding...
Scholarship, started during pandemic, offers a way to say thank you to employees
By
Liza Berger
Sep 20, 2021
“Education is very important to us and we find it as a pathway to advancement,” said Matthew Istrin, business technology analyst for Libertana Home Health based in Los Angeles.
Purchase of VNA may kick off nonprofit home care buying spree for Amedisys
By
Diane Eastabrook
May 12, 2021
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) may be the first of many nonprofit home healthcare and hospice companies Amedisys acquires.