The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. December 6, 2023
Agency Guide: Strategies to Reduce Stress for Home Care Workers
Taking a multifaceted approach to addressing the stress home care workers experience in their professional lives allows home care agencies to retain quality home care workers longer. By prioritizing training, mental health support, feedback, recognition, flexible scheduling, and user-friendly home care software, home care agencies can create an environment that allows home care workers to strike a healthy work-life balance. Ultimately, investing in the health and happiness of home care workers not only reduces their overall stress, but allows them to provide compassionate, quality care to the millions that need it now, and the millions more who will need it in the future.
This blog will suggest strategies that home care agencies can use to promote a more supportive work environment and reduce stress on home care workers.
Even though home healthcare agencies face many challenges, there are also many opportunities. Despite all the challenges facing the home healthcare industry, it will continue to grow and play an integral part in providing care at home. Technology will play a vital role in helping home care agencies to do more with less and improve operation efficiency. Integrated Home Care Software platform with the right technology and tools will play a significant role in helping home agencies meet these challenges and continue to grow.
In this blog, we discuss how some of these trends are shaping the direction of the home healthcare industry.
Efficient and optimal use of employees will directly impact improving the bottom line for home care agencies. Home Care Agencies should leverage technology to do more with less to meet the demand for home-based services and continue to grow.
This blog will discuss how easy-to-use and advanced home care scheduling software and tools will help agencies improve employee productivity and bottom line.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Report: Home Health Sector Improving Turnover Rate, Continues Increasing Compensation
Hourly pay rates for licensed practical nurses (LPNs) at home health agencies increased nearly 4% from 2022 to 2023. That rate of increase represents a significant drop from the year before.
Meanwhile, turnover rates for RNs, LPNs and home care aides declined for the second year in a row, clocking in at 28% in 2023.
RIHC 2023 Home Care Chartbook, Co-Sponsored by NAHC, Illustrates New and Changing Trends in Home Care
The Home Care Chartbook, published annually by the Institute, provides a broad overview of home health patients, the home health workforce, organizational trends, and the economic contribution of home health agencies. The Chartbook also provides data on 30-day rehospitalization rates.
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