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Our Mission

Elevate Home Health Care Workers

We aim to improve the status quo for undervalued and overlooked healthcare workers who provide care to people at home. Our multidisciplinary initiative seeks to elevate the value of home care workers while improving their working conditions and patient outcomes through rigorous research and community engagement.

Ariel Avgar, PhD

  • David M. Cohen ’73 Professor of Labor Relations, ILR School
  • Director, Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW)

Ariel Avgar is a Professor at the ILR School at Cornell University and Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research.

Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, MS

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Director, Initiative on Home Care Work

Dr. Madeline Sterling is a board certified general internist and a health services researcher in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Nicki Dell, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Information and Computer Science, Cornell Tech
  • Director of Technological Innovation, Initiative on Home Care Work

Nicki Dell is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University.

Government Shutdown can Result in Home Health Agencies Losing Telehealth Flexibilities

Within the context of a government shutdown, home health agencies are at risk of losing telehealth flexibilities that have become critical to care delivery. Dr. Madeline Sterling warns that without new legislation, the US faces a “telehealth policy cliff” as current flexibilities risk expiring.
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Government Shutdown can Result in Home Health Agencies Losing Telehealth Flexibilities

Integrating Home Health Care into Learning Health System

Dr. Madeline Sterling and Dr. Lisa Kern highlight the need to better integrate home care into the broader healthcare system to improve outcomes for heart failure patients. Incorporating Home Heath Agencies into a "learning health system" could reduce hospital readmissions and enhance continuity of care after discharge.
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Integrating Home Health Care into Learning Health System

New Research Shows Home Care Cooperative Can Improve Patient Care

Home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients, according to a new study co-authored by Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08.
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New Research Shows Home Care Cooperative Can Improve Patient Care
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