How many employees are needed for 100 patients?

[enesberg]

I am asking anyone who knows Home Health Agencies. I am a new RN just hired to help out start up a Home Health Agency. We are trying to get a contract with some local elder care organizations and they are asking we be ready to take on 100 patients. We have about ten patients right now, about 20 HHAs, three RNs, an MSN, PT, and OT. We are looking to hire some people so we can get these contracts but don't know how many people we should hire...

We are already being reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid.

Thanks!

[ttouslee]

We aren't as large as 100 clients but from my experience I would say you ned minimum of 5 full time RN's. Good luck with that contract, that will be great for your agency.

Tammy

[tktjRN]

We have about 150 clients and we have 8 RN's, 1 LPN, 4 OT, 8 PT, and 1 HHA. I think 20 HHA's is way to much. Our HHA is steady, but not overly busy. We also have to many nurses with not enough nursing cases. It also depends on the time of year. Summer is very busy and winter is very slow. Weird I know, but every year this happens line clock work. I sometimes only have 11 visits, for the week, during winter Months. Good luck!!

[evansl23]

We have just under 100 clients. 2 RN Case Managers who do all the visits and a Nursing Supervisor who helps out with visits if we're really busy. Case Managers each do anywhere from 18-25 visits/week. We have around 20+ HHA's who all stay pretty busy. We also do private duty and have approximately 10 Nurses (RN or LPN) who work shifts only with the private duty cases.

[LaRN]

3 full time rn's 2 full time lpns, the hh aides --would depend on the amount of aide service you're willing to give. if you keep it very conservative, then 1 full with possibly one part time would be plenty.

this is not counting the rns/or lpns that are needed in the office to keep things running.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I would say it depends on what the needs of the patients are. On my service, I have about 40 patients and another RN and I do the vast majority of the visits. We have per diem nurses who pick up the ones we can't do. If you have many patients who need daily visits then you need more nurses than if you have many who only need visits once/week or less. We don't employ HHAs.