As an office director for Bayada Home Health Care, I oversee home care services for more than 100 Asheville-area adults and seniors living with disabilities and chronic conditions. These are people who want what we all want: to remain safe, independent and cared for in their own homes.
Every day, I see the lifesaving work of certified nursing assistants (CNAs). They help with bathing, dressing, eating and other daily needs that keep people at home rather than in nursing facilities or hospitals. They are a lifeline. But unless lawmakers act, that lifeline is at risk.
North Carolina’s Medicaid home-care providers face reimbursement cuts of 3%-10%, driven by a $190 million budget shortfall. On paper, that may sound modest. In reality, it is devastating to an already fragile system…