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Legislators hear home‑care safety concerns and urge oversight of temporary staffing that may drain providers
Summary
Witnesses told the Joint Committee on Public Health that home health clinicians need stronger safety protections and that Department of Public Health authority is needed to regulate temporary nurse staffing contracts that are drawing clinicians away from home‑based care.
Committee members heard two related sets of testimony: safeguards for home care workers (H.2364/S.1632) and a proposal to allow DPH to regulate temporary nurse staffing contracts that affect home health and hospice agencies (H.2408/S.1633).
Gina Ferragamo, a home care registered nurse, described risks that clinicians face when entering patient homes alone — including threats, unwanted sexual advances and encounters with weapons — and urged that agencies be required to conduct pre‑service safety assessments, share relevant patient risk…
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