10/16/2025
We need your help in pushing the budget to include home care increases.
FRONT PAGE NEWS TribLive: Pennsylvania’s homecare staffing crisis is leaving older adults and people with disabilities without the care they desperately need.
Lisa Sprague, who relies on 13 hours of homecare every day, shared: “You wake up and you’re thinking, ‘Is somebody going to show up today?’”
The industry’s annual quit rate is at nearly 80%. As Sprague explained: “I make friends with them, I trust them, and then they find other jobs because this is not a livable wage to make.”
Ben Kondor of BAYADA Home Health Care highlighted the wage gap: “The starting hourly wage is between $12 and $14… In today’s landscape, you have the Sheetz of the world, the Amazon, the big box store — you name it — paying $15 an hour. We’re losing the workforce to competition outside of our industry just based upon wage disparities that are caused by those reimbursements.”
Cody Jones, PHA's Senior Director of Government Affairs, put it plainly: “We’re not looking at a potential crisis. We are in a workforce crisis right now.”
Beth Rementer, spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Rep. Matt Bradford, confirmed: “House Democrats… recognize that this is a critical issue for both the workforce and care of our older residents.”
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania reimburses agencies an average of just $20.63 per hour for personal care — with some regions as low as $19.32 — far below neighboring states.
It’s time for legislators to act. 400,000 Pennsylvanians who rely on homecare cannot afford another year of inaction.
➡️ READ MORE: https://triblive.com/news/health-now/older-disabled-pennsylvanians-bear-brunt-of-home-care-staffing-crisis/
Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus Pennsylvania House Democrats Senator Joe Pittman Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
