The next year will be a big one for home care.
There will be increased opportunities for agencies with a larger national spotlight shone on them.
Meanwhile, there are both legal threats and advocacy efforts that should be top of everyone’s mind, Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) CEO Vicki Hoak said during Home Care Pulse’s Growth Summit Monday.
“This is an election year,” Hoak said. “Why is this important? It’s important because this is the time that we, as an industry, need to reach out to our respective lawmakers to talk about home care, to tell the story about home care and its impact on their constituents.”
Lawmakers could make an immediate impact in Washington, D.C, by passing at least a part of the embattled Build Back Better plan – the part that would give $150 billion in funding to home- and community-based services.
But Build Back Better’s path is largely outside of the home care industry’s control. What is more in its power, however, is standardizing the industry.
Right now, regulation and standardization varies greatly from state to state. Hoak has argued in the past that this could take value away from the industry as a whole.
“Our home care industry does not have national standards … and we’re going to have to prove the value of delivering personal care into people’s homes,” Hoak said.
California is likely to make it a lot easier for home care workers to unionize in the state with Assembly Bill 2455.
The bill would disclose the...
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