Home Health & Hospice Week

Home health employment fell 7 percent from February to April, says Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of Bureau of Labor statistics data.

That drop is much smaller than the most affected health care sector — dentist offices with a whopping 56 percent drop — but larger than the least affected setting — hospitals with a 2 percent employment decrease.

On the other hand: Dentist offices recovered with a 56 percent employment increase in the April to May period, while home health held steady at 0 percent employment growth during that period, according to the data compiled for a KFF-Peterson Center for Healthcare project.

The employment drop was preceded by a 12 percent fall in home health “personal consumption” spending, the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker project notes. Home health accounts for 3 percent of national health spending, it adds.

See the data analysis at www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/what-impact-has-the-coronavirus-pandemic-had-on-healthcare-employment.