Home Health & Hospice Week
County Helps Reward Aides With COVID Pay
A new county program is giving home care providers a boost when it comes to recruiting and retaining staff. In New Jersey, the Camden County Board of Commissioners is making $1 million available for “those employed in the direct personal care of the elderly, children and/or adults with disabilities whose wages have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,” it says. “Eligible caregivers will receive $1,000 in relief funds for their hardships during this unprecedented time,” the Board adds. “This pandemic has rocked every industry to its core, including the field of caregiving which is among the most thankless of jobs,” Commissioner Deputy Director Ed McDonnell says in a release. “Our hope is that these funds will provide some relief and support for those working these incredibly important and difficult jobs,” he says. “Between the uncertainty in the workplace because of COVID and inflation, we feel that this is an underappreciated population of people who do priceless work for our loved ones every day,” McDonnell adds. See more details of the program at www.camdencounty.com/commissioners-launch-1-2-million-caregiver-relief-program.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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HHAs To Medicare: Don’t Kick Us While We’re Down
Program is drastically underestimating agencies’ costs of doing business, rule commenters tell CMS. Home health [...] - Budget:
List Of Drastically Increased Costs Goes On And On For HHAs
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Will CMS Listen?
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Provider Shells Out $10 Million In COVID Vax Mandate Lawsuit.
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CMS Ditches CMNs.
If you wish some of Medicare’s more annoying and useless requirements would just go away, [...] - Industry Notes:
Peruse New HQRP Videos From Medicare
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QRP Exceptions Available To Kentucky Agencies Facing Disaster
Kentucky home health and hospice agencies affected by the severe storms and flooding in the [...] - Industry Notes:
MFP Expands To 5 New States And Territories
The Biden-Harris administration is pumping more funds into Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration [...] - Industry Notes:
New Hospice Documents Offer Crucial Info
Check out the latest hospice program info in some new hospice documents. The new hospice [...] - Industry Notes:
County Helps Reward Aides With COVID Pay
A new county program is giving home care providers a boost when it comes to [...] - Industry Notes:
Corpus Christi Hospice Forks Over $1M To Settle Qui Tam Charges
A Texas hospice will pay nearly $1 million to settle whistleblower charges that it submitted [...]
