Critical Communications - Paid to Care: Changing policy, Saving Families

Children with medical complexity represent less than 1% of all U.S children, but they account for one-third of all pediatric healthcare expenditures. When the chronic nursing shortage leaves these families without in-home care, parents are forced to step in, relying on self-taught skills to manage ventilators, feeding tubes, and ICU-level care around the clock. In the latest episode of Critical Communications: Lessons From Healthcare, Bridget Haeg and Don Hunt sit down with Bill Sczepanski, Executive Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations at Team Select Home Care. They unpack the paid family caregiving movement, examining the profound disconnect between authorized care hours and the actual care these families receive. Tune in to explore how training parents as paid complex care assistants is changing lives, and how strategic communications can translate the lived realities of these families into impactful policy changes. Link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5p9F...