Please send your legislators a message urging them to sign onto Representative Paul Donato’s budget amendment #769 which would provide funds to increase the pay of these nurses and ensure that our most medically complex citizens have access to the care they need.
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Issue Background: The Massachusetts Continuous Skilled Nursing program provides in-home skilled nursing care to support and keep people with medically complex needs safe at home. While MassHealth has recently proposed a very small increase to the rates for this service, the increase does n
ot make up for more than ten years with no increases.
Home care providers find that they are increasingly unable to compete with hospitals and other facilities for nurses; as a result, hours of needed and authorized care are going undelivered, leaving the patients vulnerable to expensive hospitalizations.
In 2016, home health providers reported a 37% turnover rate of their nurses, 53% of them left for higher pay at hospitals.
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