The National Housing Alliance (The Alliance), Aetna Medicaid, a CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Missioncare Collective company announced an association designed to improve retention and expand the capacity of health workers at home.
Initially launching in Illinois, Louisiana and North Carolina, the pilot program includes collaboration and exchange of data between organizations and the implementation of a Missioncare collective workforce solution between a designated set of health providers at home.
As part of the program, the Alliance, Aetna Medicaid and CVS plan to collect data from the participants of the suppliers through the Coachup Care Platform of Missioncare Collective and meet regularly to evaluate data trends and take measures where necessary for addiction challenges.
“The plan is to review the data quarterly to see what is changing for these suppliers based on their recruitment and retention rates before the implementation,” said Kristen Wheeler, executive director of the private service house in the Alliance, to Home Health Care News. “Suppliers [currently using the platform] They are seeing an increase of approximately 15% over a 90 -day period, so it will be interesting to see if we observe similar retention statistics. ”
Wheeler explained that suppliers try to “recruit their exit from a retention problem.” However, the data indicates that there is not enough care to meet the growing demand for attention during the next decade, much less in the years beyond.
“Recruitment will not be the answer,” he said. “We have to find a way of keeping people who are in attention, to the care and prevention that they go to work elsewhere.”
Retention is the best mental for Lisa King, senior vice president of operations of all senses, the care of the affectionate house, which participates in the pilot program in Illinois, Louisiana and North Carolina.
“Our caregivers are the heart of what we do, but they can also earn more money in other industries,” he said in a statement. “We need innovative ideas and a scalable solution to retain home care workers.”
All Waying Homecare, based in Louisville, Kentucky, offers home care services to adults and people with disabilities with disabilities in 21 states.
One of the benefits of programs is that it works as a group of experts for the Alliance, Aetna Medicaid and CVS, said Wheeler, which brings together leaders to improve their understandings of the perspectives of their teams and identify areas that may need revision.
“They are suppliers of various sizes and types, but everyone is dealing with the same underlying themes,” he said. “We discuss how we need to change our thinking to make sure [caregivers] Feel valued and have a sense of property as part of the team. We need to make sure they stay. ”
The suppliers announced as participants in the pilot program are:
- Illinois: Absolute Home Care Plus, All Waying Homece, Family First Home Care, Interim Healthcare Services of Joliet, Inc., Sparta Community Hospital, his Swedish Health Hospital
- Louisiana: All affectionate senses of home care, complete domestic health
- North Carolina: All Way Caring Homecare, Ally Home Care, Liberty Homecare and Hospice, Piedmont Home Care
The pilot also points to a key problem for home health workers.
While direct care workers face challenges to meet the growing demand for home medical care, they often fight their own medical care coverage. Missioncare reports that 32% of caregivers trust Medicaid, equally, since they provide essential attention to Mediciaid beneficiaries.
Using COACHUP care, the pilot program seeks to understand the social care needs of householder medical care workers eligible for the home and develop strategies that improve economic security and create sustainable professional career for Medicaid members who work as direct care professionals.
“The direct work force is not only struggling to meet the growing demand for attention, but also to reach purposes,” said the CEO of the Alliance, Dr. Steve Landers in a statement. “When working together throughout our industry, we can advance in strategies that lead that they support the economic security of home health workers and provide a more durable solution to help expand the direct care sector, which is expected to add around one million new jobs between 2021 and 2031.”
