Pandemic Prompts National Media To Focus On Home-Health Care

Posted: March 25, 2020

At least 12 million people in the United States depend on home-health services every year, and those businesses are largely overlooked, The Washington Post reports. 

It is a sprawling sector of the U.S. health-care delivery system — and one whose fortunes could be critical in efforts to contain covid-19, the deadly lung disease caused by the coronavirus, the newspaper reports.

"With nursing homes across the country locked down and hospitals preparing for an onslaught of covid-19 patients, many who require medical services or help with the basic tasks of daily living are likely to be confined to their homes in the weeks and months ahead. Yet the providers of those services say they are unprepared to step into the breach, hamstrung by regulations ill-suited to the current pandemic and unable to access protective gear that could shield workers and clients alike from infection."

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