Hospital-level care at home is poised to grow after more than a decade, boosted both by hospitals eager to ease overcrowding and growing interest by insurers who want to slow health care spending.
Thousands of home health care workers in Oregon have struggled to protect themselves and their elderly, frail patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 20, 2020
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HOME HEALTH CARE DEL (RIGHT) AND ANTHONY HOLLOWAY WITH FAMILY FRIEND VERAL JACKSON/COURTESY OF ANTHONY HOLLOWAY
The analysis, conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that 44 percent of Oregon’s agencies landed at the bottom among their counterparts in other states.