Home Health & Hospice Week

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Home Care Wage Fixing Cases Build — And Fall

Tread carefully and expect scrutiny, legal experts advise. A Las Vegas home health staffing executive is facing charges of conspiring to fix the wages of area nurses. Eduardo Lopez oversaw recruitment, hiring, retention and assignments of nurses and other health care staff at three different home health agencies, the Department of Justice says in a release. “Lopez and other unnamed [...]
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