Home health is the fastest-growing care setting.
The technology that runs it is failing.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook 2023–2033. Home health care services projected to grow 22% (820,500 new jobs), the largest occupational growth in the U.S. economy.The evidence follows and is clear. We use this evidence to inform our product, our pitch, and our public commitments.
The documentation crisis
Now spent typing into a screen instead of caring for patients.
Black Book Research 2025, national survey of 9,000+ U.S. nursesAverage time an inpatient nurse spends actively navigating the EHR.
UCLA Health · AHA 2025The nurse exodus
The labor crisis in home health is growing. The cost of replacing a nurse is high enough to wipe out an agency's margin on a single departure.
Annual turnover rate for home health registered nurses. This is the highest across healthcare.
Bergman et al, PMC 9122113, Medical Care Research and Review, 2022Annual turnover for personal support workers and home health aides.
DailyPay Healthcare Turnover 202434% of nurses are thinking about leaving their job within a year due to EHR-related stress. 19% are thinking about leaving nursing entirely.
Black Book Research 2025The UK crisis
The UK home care market has a major opening for purpose-built platforms designed specifically for home care. The numbers speak for themselves.
Vacant adult social care posts in England in 2024/25. Sector vacancy rate is 7.0%, which is about three times the UK economy.
Skills for Care 2024/25Of UK home care providers say they cannot meet current demand. 84% cite recruitment difficulties as the primary reason.
Homecare Association Workforce Survey 2024Drop in qualified district nurses per 10,000 people aged 65+ over the last 14 years.
CQC State of Care 2023-2024UK home care and domiciliary care industry value in 2024. Projected 27% workforce growth needed by 2040.
PolicyBee 2025 · Skills for CareThe hidden mortality
The connection between documentation burden and preventable deaths has been measured in peer-reviewed Canadian research.
Medicare nursing home residents are harmed by an adverse event within their first 35 days. 60% of those harms are preventable; 37% involve medication errors.
HHS Office of Inspector General report (2014)Long-term care residents in Ontario showing clinical signs of neglect had a 55% higher 90-day mortality risk before COVID. During the pandemic, the figure jumped to 80% higher.
Hsu et al, McMaster University, Healthcare Policy, peer-reviewedUS nursing home residents die from sepsis each year after being transferred to hospitals. Medicare cost: $2 billion annually. The Sepsis Alliance estimates 80% of sepsis deaths are preventable.
KFF Health News / Chicago Tribune 2018Of US nursing homes have been cited for not having or not adhering to an infection control program.
CMS data via KFF Health NewsThe provider cost
Wrongful neglect lawsuits against care providers are rising in frequency and settlement amount. These settlements can be equivalent to an entire year's profit at a mid-size provider.
Average wrongful neglect settlement against a skilled nursing facility in 2024. Up 16% since 2018.
CNA Aging Services Claim Report 2024Increase in average total incurred for resident abuse claims at skilled nursing facilities.
CNA Aging Services Claim Report 2024Per-occurrence and annual aggregate liability insurance required for California skilled nursing facilities, and policy limits often constrain settlement negotiations.
Berman & Riedel CaliforniaEach denial costs an agency an estimated $118 to manage, and many denials would have been preventable with cleaner referral and authorization tracking.
Sirius Solutions Home Health Billing KPIs 2026According to court records in McKnight's Senior Living, a jury found Pine Creek Care Center liable involving Sam Rios, Jr., 86. The court found that Mr. Rios was repositioned only once in 42 shifts and that the care plan did not include pressure sore prevention documentation. The jury awarded $5.9 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages.
McKnight's Senior Living published the case under the headline: "$30 million judgment hits nursing home that failed to document, reposition rehab patient."
We cite this case because it illustrates a systemic pattern that a study in Ontario confirmed: When caregivers are buried in paperwork, important patient changes are easier to miss. The Ontario data shows the link is statistically significant. The Pine Creek verdict shows what the financial consequences can become.
Sources: McKnight's Senior Living · BamLaw California · Robert Kreisman, Chicago Nursing Home Lawyers BlogThe aging tsunami
Demand for home-based care is accelerating.
Of Canada's population will be 65 or older by the end of the 2030s. Currently 18.9%. Ontario alone is projected to add 650,000 seniors in just 5 years.
Statistics CanadaPeople aged 65+ in the UK by 2030. The 65+ population is projected to grow by 8.6 million over the next 50 years.
Caremark UK Aging Report 2025Canadians aged 65+ who reported unmet home care needs. The gap between demand and supply is widening every year.
Government of Canada Expert PanelAnnual eldercare costs in Canada will nearly double from $29.7B in 2019 to $58.5B by 2031,
CMA-commissioned reportThe family caregiver subsidy
The home care system survives today because families are supporting it with billions of unpaid hours. That subsidy is unsustainable.
These hours are worth $97.1 billion Replacing this labor would require 2.8 million full-time workers
Vanier Institute · RAPP / U Alberta + U ManitobaAnnual labor value of US family caregiving. Equivalent to a company larger than Apple, Amazon, or Walmart by revenue.
Columbia Mailman / Otsuka 2024Ontario caregivers say they are so burnt out they don't know how they will keep going. 1 in 5 have brought the person they care for to the emergency department because they needed temporary caregiving relief.
Ontario Caregiver Organization Spotlight ReportCanadians provide unpaid care to adults, 75% of all home care delivered in Canada comes from unpaid families.
Canadian Centre for Caregiving ExcellenceWhat this means for CuraNexus™
Everything above is the reason we built CuraNexus as a risk-mitigation operating system for home care. Home health doesn't need just another EHR, the existing ones are part of the reason the system is failing.
Our wedge is simple: give nurses their time back. AI documentation that runs inside the security perimeter. Referral pipelines that connect to billing without spreadsheets. Real-time business visibility for the agency owners who write the checks. All built from scratch for home health.
The data on this page is the foundation of our pitch and our public commitments. If the numbers change we update this page. Every claim we make traces to a primary source you can verify yourself.