Home Health Care News March 14, 2025
For once, most representatives from both parties agreed that action is necessary.
“I was encouraged by the engagement from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle,” Empath Health CEO Jonathan Fleece told me in an email after the March 11 hearing, at which he testified. “There was real recognition that home-based care is not only what patients and families want – it’s a cost-effective, patient-centered solution that benefits the entire health care system.”
At the hearing, Fleece offered compelling arguments regarding the paramount importance of home-based care.
“Home-based care isn’t just for those actively dying,” Fleece testified. “It supports people managing chronic illnesses, recovering from surgery and navigating terminal diagnosis. Patients want it. Families need it, and taxpayers benefit. Keeping...