And Medicare puts caps on the number of home health visits a patient can get.

She knows how hard it is to find well-trained and reliable home health care on Long Island.

Medicare covers home health skilled nursing care that is part time and intermittent.

The practical effect would be to make home health care a new class of Medicare: basically free, and largely financed by general tax revenue.

Mr. Mitchell has no paid home health care aides or housekeepers to help with his mother.

It provides acute, outpatient community wellness and home health services.

Other health-related services include assisted living, home health and long-term care.

The struggling home health care company said the stock would be used an incentives for employees.

As president of a sister organization, Local 32B-32J-144, which represents 22,000 home health care workers, he was paid $57,510 in 1994.

Among Jack's passionate causes was the fight for home health care workers for a living wage.