Home Health Care News November 15, 2022
It’s no secret that the nursing crisis continues to become more dire, impacting health care as a whole – including home health care. But honing in on nurses, and former nurses, when addressing the many challenges the industry is facing may be a way forward.
For context, by 2025 the health care industry will be short between 200,000 and 450,000 nurses. This is a 20% gap from what is needed based on patients and the way that care is delivered today.
Additionally, 100,000 nurses left the workforce in 2020, Bonnie Clipper, managing director at
Innovation Advantage, said during a panel discussion at the HLTH conference on Sunday.
“That number blows away any other number we’ve ever seen in a year,”...