A Caregiver’s Role: Running to a Crisis

Vanessa Roman, client care supervisor at Right at Home, works on the frontline. Matt Field, co-owner & CFO of Right at Home, with COVID-positive clients. Cissie Gerber, assistant agency manager at Right at Home, suiting up for a client.

In the middle of April, a few weeks into Illinois’ stay-at-home order, we finally got the call we were anxiously anticipating. A local assisted living facility asked if Right at Home could provide one-on-one care for a woman with dementia who tested positive for COVID-19. Previously, when others asked if we would take care of […]

Rapid Changes to Healthcare Spurred By COVID Might Be Here to Stay

Healthcare, Chicago Health Magazine Online

The U.S. healthcare system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19 pandemic has done what no president, social movement or venture capitalist could […]