Long-Term Healthcare Workers: Who Are They?



According the Kaiser Family Foundation, “about 4.5 million people work in the long-term care industry in facility settings such as skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, and home health agencies, which provide clinical and personal care services in the home.” 

As they care for family members and loved ones, COVID-19 presents significant challenges for these workers and their employers, with reports of widespread and sometimes deadly coronavirus infections among patients and staff in such settings, especially in hard-hit states.

  
Here is an except of a Just Released report from (KFF):

Most are in close contact with patients. For instance, aides and personal care workers, who provide medical and/or personal care and come into direct and frequent contact with patients, account for 53 percent of all long-term care workers. Health care providers such as doctors and nurses account for 14 percent of long-term care workers. Another 13 percent are non-clinical support staff, such as maids/janitors, housekeeping and laundry and food service workers, who do not provide medical or personal care but come into frequent contact with patients due to the nature of their work.

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