Home sweet home? How home health aide compensation, benefits and employment security influence the quality of care delivered by home health organizations

Conclusion Compensation and benefits practices impact quality, and the effect these practices have on quality varies under conditions of employment insecurity created by the organization’s use of contract home health aides. Practice Implications Home health organizations should employ a nuanced approach to improving quality, increasing compensation to permanent home health aides when the organization increases their use of contract home health aides and equally distributing benefits to home health aides when the organization does not rely as heavily on contract home health aides.
Source: Health Care Management Review - Category: American Health Tags: Online Only Source Type: research