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Elderly, disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care pay

A labor shortage in Medicaid community care programs, triggered by the Legislature’s poverty-level wages for attendants who provide in-home services, could. ....

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Honor Home Care Month by stepping up for Texas patients: Rachel Hammon

Home care and hospice services support medically fragile families in Texas. Yet, Medicaid rates for attendant care have remained stagnant for 16 years. ....

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Lower wages and burnout worsening home nursing shortage for families

Advocates say home nursing care wages, often paid through Medicaid and set by the state, are just too low to keep nurses and nursing assistants in the profession. ....

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Texas health aides: Thousands left out of one-time bonuses

Attendant positions are some of the lowest paid jobs in health care, earning a. ....

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Texas' Pandemic Relief Missed Large Groups of Health Attendants

The state announced it would use federal pandemic funds to give one-time bonuses to health-care workers but it omitted the largest group of health attendants, who provide services to about 130,000 low-income Texans. ....

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