WHO WE ARE
We are an association of more than 1,200 licensed Home and Community Support Services Agencies across the state of Texas. The Texas Association for Home Care and Hospice (TAHC&H) is committed to protecting the right of individuals, particularly those with chronic illness or disability, to receive reliable, quality health care in the comfort of their own home.
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Home Care Challenges
Texas’s home care and hospice frontline health care workers provide medically necessary services to Texas’ most vulnerable individuals with disabilities and significant illnesses. Home care agencies are facing extraordinary challenges that impact their ability to provide quality, affordable in-home services for their patients.
Following the pandemic and its effects on the workforce and our economy, the industry is fighting an unprecedented crisis. Due to workforce shortages, chronically low funding that is outpaced by rising health care costs and inflation, and regulatory hurdles that delay industry innovation, home care providers in Texas can no longer overcome the challenges they face on a daily basis.
Without action from our leaders, the home care industry and the half million Texas families we serve will be left without the care they rely on, driving up costs and leaving vulnerable patients at risk.
HOME CARE IN THE NEWS
 Elderly, disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care payAUSTIN — For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who’s been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident.She helps him eat, bathe and move, allowing the former tool designer to stay in his Arlington home. |  Nursing Shortage Puts Medically Fragile Children at Risk, Spurs Calls for ChangeAnalicia Brokloff just wanted to take her daughter home. Her 2-year-old, Mila, was ready to be discharged from UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento after having a lung infection. |  Texas Lege can right a wrong and help fund medically fragile children with disabilitiesTexas was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), receiving roughly $862 million dollars in Medicaid funding from the federal government in 2022 according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. |
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 Shortage of in-home nurses leaves kids waiting in hospital beds. ‘The entire system is feeling the pRicardo Ruiz could have left the hospital two months ago. Instead, the toddler waited while his family searched for a nurse who could help care for him at home. |  How our Statesman investigation led lawmakers to take action on care for the disabledAfter years of ignoring life-threatening problems in the state’s catastrophically underfunded system of home and community care for people with disabilities, lawmakers vowed this week to take action to improve safety for disabled clients and raise pay for the caretakers they depend on. |  Low pay leading to less home care workers to help disabled, elderly peopleDecember 27, 2022 - Shirley Montalvo, who has quadriplegia, is proud of her independence, but she relies on a caregiver that helps her live her life and get ready to go out and work. She’s been waiting months to find someone to help her full-time. |
