State’s Post-Pandemic Recovery Hinges on Home Health Boom: Report
Crain’s New York Business
More than half a million home health workers in New York have fueled the state’s post-pandemic economic recovery as a popular Medicaid-funded home care program exploded, a new report shows…
…Growth in the state’s home care workforce has inflated overall job growth in the industry, hiding persisting shortages of other types of clinicians. Hospitals are still struggling to recruit and retain lab technicians, psychiatrists and registered nurses after the pandemic, according to a report by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany. Experts have chalked up the persistence of health workforce shortages to low pay.