Regional Digest
• Exempla Healthcare (Denver) is in talks to sell its home health agency to the Visiting Nurse Association of Denver, reported the Denver Rocky Mountain News. The home health agency, with annual revenues of $10 million, serves about 2,800 patients and employs 230 workers. Officials from both sides hope to work out a deal in the next month and close on it by mid-January, the News reported.
• Home health workers in Wisconsin will get modest wage boosts under Medicaid increases in the new state budget signed by Gov. Tommy Thompson. In signing the legislation, Thompson cited evidence that high staff turnover and the threat of declining patient care were linked to low pay for nurse aides, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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