Home Health Care News February 26, 2021
U.S. lawmakers have repeatedly highlighted a need to rethink the nation’s long-term care landscape in recent months, partly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic but also because of the country’s rapidly changing demographics.
A recently published budget report from the House Appropriations Committee obtained by Home Health Care News offers further insight into that call to action.
Each year, Congress publishes reports with its enacted federal budget outlining how and where federal dollars should be spent. This year’s budget report related to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is noteworthy for its several passages with language strongly supporting home-based care and a shift away from institutional settings.
“I’ve never seen so many references to home-based care before...