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Home Care Unionization Efforts Beginning To Tick Back Up

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The home care workforce has traditionally been a tough one to organize. Recently, University of Rochester Medicine Home Care (URMHC) workers “overwhelmingly” chose to join a labor union. Home care providers have had greater challenges than we’ve ever seen before.

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California Officially Raises Minimum Wage For Home Health Care Workers

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The bill also mandates that those facilities must guarantee salaried employees receive a monthly salary, which should be “at least 150% of the health care worker minimum wage or 200% of the relevant minimum wage,” whichever amount is higher. California already has the highest average salary for RNs in the country.

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Beyond the Breach: Strategies for Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks in Home Health Care

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21 cyberattack at UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Change Healthcare. The cyberattack was a cruel reminder to home health agencies, insurers and other stakeholders that they can never be too safe when it comes to protected patient information. This week, the U.S. It’s the vendor that you have to be concerned about.

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2023’s Hidden-Gem Stories: Home Health Struggles, Non-Compete Bans, An LHC Group-Amedisys Combination

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However, Gentiva — a company that was born out of the divested home care and hospice assets of what used to be Kindred at Home — believes that it will be able to crack the code. “We 9) The complicated — and at times antagonistic — relationship between home health providers and coveners is well-known across the industry.

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Aging Media Network Announces 2022 Aspect Awards Winners

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With 42 submissions in the categories of Home Health & Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care, Senior Housing & Senior Living, Skilled Nursing (SNF), and Behavioral Health, the scope of creativity is broader than ever before. HOME HEALTH & HOME CARE. HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE.

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The Biggest Regulatory, Policy ‘Wins’ for Home-Based Care in Recent Memory

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Trade groups, providers and individuals have always advocated on behalf of the home health and home care sectors. Not many fight for legislative and regulatory causes as much as the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). 1 priority remains the Choose Home Care Act of 2021.

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Former Home Health Owner Receives 25 Months In Prison For Fraud, Kickback Schemes

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He pleaded guilty last week to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks, according to Acting U.S. Atoyan did so through ANGL Health Care, Excel Hospice and Excel Home Healthcare. Attorney Phillip A. million in restitution to the U.S.