An Interview with Vicki Hoak Executive Director of the Home Care Association of America
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We are honored to welcome to All Home Care Matters the Executive Director of the Home Care Association of America, Vicki Hoak. We will speaking with Vicki about the effect that Covid-19 has had on the Home Care industry and the caregivers, home health aides, and those on the front lines helping families to keep their loved ones safe and cared for during the pandemic.
During the pandemic the spotlight and focus on the importance of the Home Care industry and its employees had never been more important. We will explored where the Home Care industry is headed and how Home Care has started to be seen more so than possibly ever as a crucial component of the health care system.
We want to thank you for joining us here at All Home Care Matters, All Home Care Matters is here for you and to help families as they navigate long-term care issues. We also would like to express our appreciation to Vicki Hoak for taking timeout to speak with us today about the Home Care industry and the important work that the Home Care Association of America is doing for the Home Care industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:09.9 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.4 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you. |
| 0:30.1 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try to make each |
| 0:33.8 | episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that hopefully matters to you. |
| 0:38.0 | On today's episode, we have a very special guest, Vicki Hoke, who is the executive director |
| 0:42.9 | of the Home Care Association of America. Welcome, Vicki. |
| 0:46.8 | Thank you very much. It's good to be with you. Thank you. So, Vicki, being the executive |
| 0:52.0 | director of the Home Care Association of America, I'm sure you come |
| 0:55.9 | into contact with countless home care companies. |
| 0:58.4 | And what would you say is some of the ways that COVID has directly impacted the home care |
| 1:05.8 | industry? |
| 1:07.5 | Well, first of all, I think it has affected the home care industry just by, you know, being out in front. |
| 1:17.0 | I often say that right now at this moment in time, I keep going back to the Charles Dickens novel, The Tale of Two Cities, when they say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
| 1:29.4 | Because it is the best of time just because being an advocate for home care for probably over 20 years, |
| 1:38.3 | I have to tell you that I didn't think I would ever see the day that a sitting president would make home care |
| 1:45.8 | a centerpiece of a major initiative. |
| 1:48.4 | And we saw that happen when President Biden released the American Jobs Plan, when he earmarked |
| 1:55.9 | $400 billion to home care. |
| 1:58.6 | I think the pandemic, while it has been the worst of times having to live through the pandemic, there is also, though, been some silver lining. And one of the things that has come out of the pandemic is that now home care is being seen as a real alternative to keep people safe, to care for people in their homes. |
| 2:22.4 | And I'm not sure, well, I would say that we've all been saying that, those of us in home care |
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