Home Health Care News September 26, 2024
The home-based care staffing environment will always be a challenge for providers, but things look far better now than they did two years ago in the wake of the pandemic. However, one area that remains a lingering problem for providers is nurses, and specifically nurses who are leveraging a worker shortage to maximize earning power.
A confluence of factors made recruiting and retaining home-based care workers from 2020 to the beginning of 2023 a major headache.
Increased government aid kept a large amount of workers on the sidelines, for extended periods of time. Meanwhile, many clinical professionals either retired or exited the industry after being burnt out by pandemic-related pressure.
Most of that has abated, but home health providers...
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