Please pay our nurses more so agencies can compete with facilities. There is no incentives for new new nurses or any nurses to want to do home health. We home health patients need quality nurses who want to be here. Most of our nurses have to work multiple cases just to make ends meet. Most of them are over worked and under insured which makes the problem for everyone even worse. 

As a tracheotomy and vent dependent patient, our nurses need better training. I don’t know if that needs to be done in the educational programs or if that should be the agency’s responsibility but it needs to be done. And if it can’t be done, make it easier for our loved ones to get paid because they’re the ones who are left providing care when they’re no nurses available which is often.

Most agencies in the Richmond area, don’t have nurses available. We need help!!!!