Flurry of immigration legislation would reduce hiring barriers

By:

Immigrants looking to work in the long-term care industry would see some barriers lowered, including costs and licensing requirements, under a trio of recently introduced House bills. The proposals were introduced Thursday by Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and are designed to bring more workers into the healthcare industry amid a severe […]

Read More

New Obligations for Frontline Sector Employers through Minnesota’s Frontline Worker Pay Program

By:

On April 29, 2022, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed S.F. No. 2677 (2022) into law.  This law authorizes bonus payments to Minnesotans who worked in frontline sectors during the COVID-19 peacetime emergency.  This so-called “Hero Pay” law aims to thank eligible frontline workers for their sacrifices and hard work during the pandemic, when their work put them […]

Read More

Why more long-term care operators are being nudged upstream

By:

There is continuing debate in long-term care about whether future success lies in upstream (increasingly healthcare focused) or downstream (increasingly service focused) services. Compelling arguments can be made for either option. That being noted, some recent findings leave little doubt about which way the scrum is moving. Read more @ McKnight’s Home Care

Read More

In-Home Care Provider Makes Bet on Medical Private-Pay Services

By:

An in-home care provider is making a bet. That bet is that while the amount of people needing care will rise over time, the percentage able to afford private-pay home care is going to dwindle. And in order to win out on that population, it needs to be hyper-focused on it. That is – in […]

Read More

Colorado Updates Notice Requirements for Employees Upon Discharge

By:

Colorado enacted a slew of employment-related legislation in the 2022 legislative session.1 One important new piece of legislation, Senate Bill 22-234, updates the notice requirements regarding unemployment insurance that employers must provide to employees upon termination. Under preexisting Colorado law,2 employers are required to provide a notice to employees at separation of employment that includes: A statement […]

Read More

Overlooked, undervalued: Cornell research seeks to elevate home care workers

By:

“Stop it, stop it!” Yanick Pierre-Louis, 68, slapped her knees, frustrated they wouldn’t stop trembling. Again, her body refused to do what she wanted. She had just spent an excruciating 25 minutes walking, grimacing with each step, from her recliner in her Brooklyn home to her front door and back, leaning on her walker. Marie […]

Read More

Providers push feds for more support in hiring foreign workers amid workforce crisis

By:

Amid an ongoing push for legislative fixes that could bring more immigrants into the healthcare workforce, the nation’s two largest nursing home associations are pursuing a regulatory course too. Representatives with the American Health Care Association and LeadingAge on Tuesday met with the Department of Labor in an effort to get the agency to reconsider its denial to […]

Read More

How Healthcare Uses Innovation to Help Seniors Age Independently

By:

The fastest-growing population in the US are seniors, and they’re very much interested in staying healthy longer and staying at home. With that in mind, healthcare organizations are developing care management programs that allow seniors to age independently, and they’re researching and investing in programs that improve home-based care, including telehealth and digital health. As […]

Read More

Mistakes in leadership

By:

I forgot. I missed that. I made a mistake. I was wrong. I let my emotions get the best of me. I reacted too quickly. I was short. I jumped to conclusions. Have you ever had a thought like the above? What’s that? You have had more than one? You are not alone. This week […]

Read More

Providers may be looking over their shoulders for years to come

By:

When observers say effects of the pandemic will be felt for years, many will first think about long-COVID. From brain fog to breathing troubles to any number of still possibly unrealized maladies, the issues are real, and may grow in the years ahead. This is an open book, and likely will be for generations to come. But […]

Read More

Millenials May be a Solution to Private Duty and Home Care Staffing Woes

By:

Providers of in-home care must turn down 50% of those seeking care due to a lack of staffing, but part of the solution may be attracting millennials to the private duty and home care industry. “In the private duty industry and the home care industry, staffing has always been a challenge, but then throw the pandemic into it and […]

Read More

July 2022 Data Point: What Caregiver Benefits Are You Offering?

By:

Welcome to the July 2022 Home Care Data Point from NAHC and Home Care Pulse. For this data point, survey participants in NAHC and the home care industry were asked “What sort of caregiver benefits do you offer?” We listed the top eight caregiver benefits, comparing what the industry average is and what the average […]

Read More