It’s not just a labor shortage rankling home health, as high workforce turnover and churn make the businesses increasingly difficult to run, Axios notes, citing reporting in the Wall Street Journal. A push to provide care in the home has for the past five years driven significant private equity investment into home health, but current labor dynamics could chill PE dealmaking in the near-term. Read more.
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