This is an issue in Illinois, which is facing a severe financial crunch. The result is in doubt, but one unintended consequence may be to limit the hours of home health care available to seniors.
You may click on the photo below to read the article.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Should home health care workers get time and one-half for overtime?
This is an interesting question for me as a 97-year-old relative has 24-hour home health which consists of two women/day each working a 12-hour shift. Federal regulation recently provided for Medicare payments of overtime to home health workers. Of course, to come into effect, the states must agree to shoulder their half of the costs.
This is an issue in Illinois, which is facing a severe financial crunch. The result is in doubt, but one unintended consequence may be to limit the hours of home health care available to seniors.
You may click on the photo below to read the article.
This is an issue in Illinois, which is facing a severe financial crunch. The result is in doubt, but one unintended consequence may be to limit the hours of home health care available to seniors.
You may click on the photo below to read the article.
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