The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 16, 2026
Building a Diverse Home Care Workforce - Why It Matters
A workforce that matches your patients' languages and cultures improves safety, adherence, and trust while opening referral markets you can't reach otherwise. Roughly 37 percent of home care workers already speak limited English, so the diversity is there to harness. Pair inclusive hiring with better job quality, language-match scheduling, and real tracking, or the effort stalls.
The Shift-Based Scheduling Puzzle: Managing Overtime, Split Shifts, and Blended Rates in Private Duty Nursing
Private Duty Nursing scheduling requires shift-based software—not visit-based tools. CareVoyant simplifies split shifts, automates blended overtime calculations, and applies complex rate differentials to ensure compliance, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
EVV for Agencies with Multiple Aggregators, States, Services, and Payers
Multi-state, multi-payer, and multi-service agencies almost always feed several EVV aggregators and juggling separate portals invites duplicate entry, mismatches, and denied visits. As states shift to hard-deny enforcement in 2026, an unresolved exception is an unpayable claim. CareVoyant captures each visit once and routes it to the right aggregator by state, payer, and program, all in one platform.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Smart home care hiring: Diversify channels, speed up timelines
Using various hiring channels, interviewing people soon after they apply and focusing on local candidates are some effective strategies home care agencies can use to hire caregivers, according to the “Q1 2026 Caregiver Benchmark Report from Augusta“, the home care recruitment platform.
Older adults in states with higher HCBS spending more likely to age in place, study finds
Older adults with independent living difficulties who lived in states that allocated a larger share of long-term services and supports spending to home- and community-based services showed a lower likelihood of group quarters residence, residence with adult children, and migration compared to those living in areas with less HCBS spending.
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