Home Health Care Employment on a Steady Incline

This article was excerpted from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s Basic Statistics about Home Care (Updated 2007), which is available on the NAHC website in its entirety at http://www.nahc.org/facts/07HC_Stats.pdf. One of the main concerns regarding health care employment is the recruitment and retention of nurses. In 2004, the average nurse turnover rate…