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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 22, 2023 12:16 PM |
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| From: | Representative Patty Kim and Rep. Melissa Cerrato |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Study of Staffing Trends for Home and Community-Based Services |
| The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our long-term care facilities and home and community-based services particularly hard. We plan to introduce a resolution that authorizes the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to research the impact of the pandemic on the staffing needs of our Commonwealth’s Medicaid-funded and Lottery-funded Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver programs. The study will examine wage rates for home health aides, personal care attendants, direct support professionals, older adult daily living center providers, and community-based mental health providers in the HCBS system; as well as the rates charged to provide these providers. It will also look at the increase in wages from 2018 through today (using the latest available figures), as well as the level of care required by HCBS recipients over the same time period. The changes in wages will be measured against the inflation rate. The study is to be completed within seven months and submitted to the House. Please join us in co-sponsoring this resolution, which will give us a clear picture of how the pandemic has affected the staffing needs of our home and community-based services, and the cost of providing care to some of our Commonwealth’s most vulnerable citizens. |
Introduced as HR165