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With over 37,000 home care agencies listed in the directory, you are sure to find a home health care agency in your area for you or your loved one. Home health care nurses must be trained medical professionals licensed to practice in their state and equipped to follow a physician's plan of care. Home care nurses typically work with elderly patients but may also provide services for children with mental or developmental issues, as well as patients with disabilities. The American Rescue Plan, approved by Congress in March, provides a 10 percentage point increase in federal Medicaid funding to states, or nearly $13 billion, for home and community-based services. "COVID uncovered the challenges of older adults and how vulnerable home health care they were in this pandemic and the importance of front-line care professionals who are being paid low wages," she says. Katie Smith Sloan, CEO of Leading Age, which represents nonprofit aging services providers, says the workforc...