Overworked, Underpaid, and Cutting Corners: The Crisis in Home Health Care
Employees of LHC Group describe a business model that prioritized profits and compromised patient care. Soon they reached a breaking point: “It just didn’t make me feel right, doing what I did.”
Illustration by Deena So Oteh
A few years ago, Stella started working as a nursing assistant at Almost Family in Chilton, Wisconsin. She liked the job at first the hours were flexible, and she had a good connection with her patients. She would spend a few hours at each of her patients’ homes, cleaning up and helping them get dressed or take baths.
DBMR has added a new report titled Home Healthcare Market with analysis provides the insights which bring marketplace clearly into the focus and thus help organizations make better decisions. This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global market and includes a discussion of the key ve.
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday trimmed some claims from a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit alleging Kindred Healthcare improperly understaffed its nursing homes, but kept intact accusations that the health care services company falsified certifications on tens of thousands of claim forms submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.