The U.S. Department of Labor announced this morning the economy added only 69,000 new jobs in May, which is about 100,000 fewer jobs than expected. As a result the jobless rate rose from 8.1% to 8.2%.
However, one highlight from the bleak report is that the home care industry accounted for approximately 6,900 (10%) of those new jobs! In fact, the home health industry’s contribution to the nation’s labor force was greater than that of hospitals, nursing homes and every other non-physician office provider sector.
So not only is home healthcare clinically-advanced, cost-effective and patient-preferred — it’s a job creator! HCAF will make sure that this message resonates with state and federal lawmakers whose top priority since the economic downtown has been job creation. Read the rest of this entry »
