 Nursing shortage: Pearland mother pushes for pay increases to keep private-duty nurses employedPEARLAND, Texas – A nursing shortage in Texas is hurting children with multiple disabilities. “Homecare is not getting the funding they need to keep our children home and safe,” said Caroline Cheevers. |  Texas dealing with a serious shortage of in-home caretakersAUSTIN — Texas dealing with a serious shortage of in-home caretakers. Click above to watch this video news segment. |  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. |
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 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. |  Texas Legislature should boost private duty nursing ratesDecember 25, 2022 - At least 10 Texas families won’t be spending the holidays at home this year. Instead, loved ones will gather in hospitals across the state to be with their medically fragile children – a sad scenario that could be avoided. |
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 Honor Home Care Month by stepping up for Texas patients: Rachel HammonNovember 18, 2022 - Home care is more than health care. It’s a mother’s sigh of relief when a trusted nurse enters her home to ensure safe and effective care for her medically complex child, or a husband holding his wife’s hand as she receives comfortable end-of-life care in the bed they’ve shared for decades. |  'The worst compensated job in Texas' | Texas is facing a worsening home caregiver shortageOctober 28, 2022 - For more than two decades, Gene Rodgers has depended on a community-based caregiver to come into his home to help give him life-sustaining care that includes helping him in and out of bed, getting dressed and assisting him with meal preparation. |  Lower wages and burnout worsening home nursing shortage for familiesOctober 26, 2022 - Families with medically dependent children, and seniors who require care at home, are struggling to find home care nurses. Lower wages and burnout, however are making the nursing shortage worse. |
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 Medicare’s cuts to home health are a step in the wrong directionOctober 11, 2022 - My grandmother lived at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until the day we literally had to drag her off of it. |  Home health, nursing homes look for year-end breaks in spending dealOctober 4, 2022 - Long-term care and home health providers are ramping up pleas for financial relief in a year-end congressional spending deal, testing their influence against a other health interests trying to tuck favorable provisions in the must-pass bill. |  Low pay for personal care attendants means some Texans with disabilities go without services they neOctober 3, 2022 - While hourly workers in a variety of industries have seen significant pay increases in recent years, especially since the pandemic, attendants who assist people with disabilities in their homes remain stuck. |
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 Seniors are stuck home alone as health aides flee for higher-paying jobsSept. 25, 2022- RICHFIELD, Minn. — Racked with nausea and unable to leave the bathroom, Acey Hofflander muttered in confusion. Her husband tried to... |  Congress must stave off Medicare cuts to protect home health careSept 18, 2022 - For years, professionals in the home care and hospice industry have been working nonstop on behalf of pediatric patients, geriatric patients, disabled veterans, and anyone in need of home care, regardless of age or disability. |  Don't leave Texas home care workers behind<b>Jul 16, 2022</b> — Don't leave Texas home care workers behind. Hospice agencies and at-home nurses are facing stagnant funding and rising inflation. |
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