Nursing floor will break homecare, says association – 06/08/2023 – Panel SA

To avoid a general breakdown, homecare, a home care service, is trying to readjust its daily rates by 35% with the entry into force of the new nursing floor in early July.

This is what data from the National Center for Home Care Services Companies (Nead) shows, which represents the sector.

Currently, the approximately 1,200 companies in the field are talking to health plans to enable the automatic transfer of costs, which will represent 54% of their net revenue.

They also try, on another front, to show the ministers of the Federal Supreme Court the harmful effects if the application of the new floor is not “modulated”. The matter is being considered by the plenary.

If they are not successful, profits will go from the current 21.3% to 2.3%, shortening the breath for the vast majority of companies.

This situation also concerns public and private hospitals, because homecare allows the release of beds when a hospitalized patient is able to be cared for at home.

Today, there are more than 100,000 professionals serving 350,000 patients —a demand that would require hospitals to invest in building 35,432 new beds.

The new nursing floor, however, weighs more on homecare than on hospitals.

In home care, it is necessary to have four professionals to guarantee comprehensive care for a single patient. That’s because this professional works on a 12-hour active basis for 36 hours of rest.

The new floor —BRL 3,325 for technicians and BRL 4,750 for nurses— was defined by a law sanctioned by Jair Bolsonaro and contested before the Federal Supreme Court.

It is in effect by a decision by Minister Luís Roberto Barroso that will be decided by the plenary. The trial is interrupted with a request for a view from Minister Gilmar Mendes.

With Diego Felix

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