Home care and other franchise workers in Seattle will receive the city’s $15 minimum wage by 2018, following a decision handed down Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The International Franchise Association (IFA) and certain businesses—including a BrightStar Care franchise owner—challenged a provision of the Seattle law, which treated local franchises of corporations such as […]
In an effort to avoid a budget ‘Armageddon’ as a result of higher wage costs, workers in the Illinois Home Services Program will see their weekly working hours capped at 40 hours beginning May 1st. The Prairie State has not had a budget approved by its congressional members or Governor Bruce Rauner for nearly a […]
To solve the problem of needing more space to grow and afford a larger office, one New York-based home care company has partnered with five other organizations and moved into a new, collaborative space with them. Alliance Homecare, a home care agency that has grown rapidly over the last 10 years, has opened up a […]
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? This week, we had mixed data about the home health care job market to share with our readers. The good: The home health industry was the fastest growing job market in health care over the last 12 months. However, nurses are fleeing the industry in […]
Headlines about retention challenges in home health and home care might create the impression that agencies are not great places to work. But at least a few standouts challenge this notion—including the home health companies that appear on this year’s Fortune rankings of the top 20 workplaces in health care. Dallas-based Encompass Home Health and […]
Home health care—an industry that knows staff turnover all too well—is adding jobs at a faster pace than any other health care employment setting, new data show. Over the past 12 months, home health care added 74,900 jobs for a growth rate of 5.8%, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Altarum Institute, […]
The home care industry is no stranger to high employee turnover rates. In Texas, nurses are being lured away from their jobs in home health and skilled nursing to join a different industry entirely: fast food. More and more, nurses are leaving their jobs to work at McDonald’s for higher pay, according to EverythingLubbock.com. “You can […]
Faced with mounting wage costs and the threat of high turnover, one home care provider is using feedback from monthly surveys to address some of the industry’s biggest pressures. More home care companies are turning to data, and private duty in-home care provider Seniorcorp is no exception, relying on monthly reports from resource management company […]
As the pressure rises on home health workers and and other health systems for a growing population of patients, one provider is piloting a program to fill the gaps not with caregivers, but with regular people. The program employs LifeCourse, a new project from Minnesota-based health care provider Allina Health LifeCourse is a late life […]
CareCentrix Extends Contract with Cigna CareCentrix, a company that provides support and coordination for patients and their families that need home health care services, has extended its contract with Cigna, a global health service company and CareCentrix’s longest standing client since 1996. The contract extension is for two years, and will continue to give Cigna’s […]
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