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How to Reduce Caregiver Turnover at Your Agency

May 1, 2023 · 4 minutes to read

Retaining quality staff is crucial for any home health agency. Increases in caregiver retention are good for business. Frequently hiring and training new staff is often expensive. Constantly losing caregivers can also make it harder to schedule your staff and ensure that your clients get the level of care they need and expect.

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There’s no one secret for how to retain caregivers. But, there are steps your agency can take to help keep good ones working for you. Here are four caregiver retention ideas to help you run a successful home health agency.

Recommended reading: Tips for Recruiting Quality Caregivers for Your Home Care Business

1. Focus on training

Training is essential for new caregivers and long-term staff. It creates a foundation for your expectations for your staff and helps reinforce these values. Quality training can also improve a caregiver’s performance and confidence and help them feel more secure in their job.

When you hire a new caregiver, they should receive initial training that covers typical caregiver duties and your company policies. Many caregivers enter the field with little or no experience. Providing them with comprehensive instruction and hands-on training helps prepare them for the job.

However, even experienced caregivers may need a refresher. Ongoing training on safety and your agency’s expectations can help keep them prepared. Offering training that could help them earn pay raises or promotions (such as CPR certification) may also inspire staff to stick with your agency.

Recommended reading: Hoe to Get Free Home Health Aide Training Program?

2. Offer great benefits

The home healthcare industry is competitive. An excellent salary and benefits package could help attract highly qualified candidates and increase caregiver retention.

Salary is important for many caregivers. Offering pay and raises in line with industry standards and expectations in your area could help you keep staff at your agency. However, you might want to offer more than just great pay. Allowing extra vacation days, excellent health insurance, mileage reimbursement, and other perks could also help with caregiver retention.

3. Listen to your staff

A great salary and bonuses may mean less if your caregivers don’t feel like you listen to them. Creating open lines of communication between caregivers and management could help with retention and improve your agency. A clear complaint process and commitment to change may also be important.

Communication is a key part of running a home health agency. Your caregivers should know who to contact when they have an issue, and someone should be available to answer their questions when they are working—day or night. Updates to their schedule, shift changes, and client care details are also essential communications for any caregiver.

Employee feedback can be valuable for improving and growing your agency. This may include fielding staff complaints, which often provide insight into processes that aren’t working. Taking their feedback on board and actually making necessary changes shows caregivers that you value their input and want to create an agency where people want to work.

4. Offer support

Even a caregiver at the best agency can experience burnout. After all, it is a job that requires great physical, mental, and emotional strength. Providing your caregivers with the necessary support could increase caregiver retention and job satisfaction.

Offering resources to caregivers, such as mental health support or extra vacation days, can help them feel valued at your agency. A mental health plan could provide your staff with the tools they need to succeed as a caregiver and avoid exhaustion. Time off can help your staff rest and recharge, so they return to work happier and ready to dive back into their roles.

Caregiver retention ideas for your home health agency

Great employees can help your clients thrive, and your agency find success. You might consider these and other steps to help keep talented staff members with your agency.

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