Community-Based Home Care Workgroup Policy Agenda
The Community-Based Home Care Workgroup consists of 11 nonprofit home care agencies, collectively employing nearly 14,000 New Yorkers and serving nearly 11,000 community members a year across the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding counties.
Nonprofit home care providers have faced particular challenges. Specifically, Medicaid, the largest payer of home care and long-term care in New York State, has exacerbated the home care crisis through chronic low reimbursement rates. Nonprofit home care agencies are beholden to the rates and requirements laid out by Medicaid and NYS. We cannot compensate our workers justly or run the best quality programs when faced with inadequate Medicaid reimbursement.
At a time when racial, economic and gender justice need to be addressed as a top priority, we have laid out the following policy priorities within the nonprofit home care sector that highlight how nonprofit community-based home care providers, their workers, and the communities they serve can receive equitable support and resources.
