Health Column: Mission to provide home health care, hospice operating at a loss

Health Column: Mission to provide home health care, hospice operating at a loss

Home health care at nonprofit Northwest Colorado Health started in 1964, and today the continuing service predominately assists Medicare patients 65 and older, a growing segment of the population. But the agency is losing money doing so. Reimbursement rates for home health care visits are significantly lower than actual operational costs, said Steph Einfeld, CEO at Northwest Colorado Health. That leaves the mission of the health agency, which se…