{"id":356511,"date":"2025-11-05T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:24:14","slug":"st-paul-based-home-health-care-company-to-close-laying-off-400-employees-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/356511\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul-based home health care company to close, laying off 400 employees \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Paul-based home health care company plans to close in coming months, laying off more than 400 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Dependable Home Healthcare notified its staff and clients Tuesday that it will suspend services at the end of January as the company winds down its operations, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/deed\/assets\/warn-2025-dependable-home-healthcare_tcm1045-711638.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a letter to Minnesota officials<\/a> from CEO Katie Fleury. The company provides services allowing the elderly and those with disabilities to live outside institutional settings.<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed statement, Fleury said shuttering the company was a \u201cvery difficult decision\u201d made necessary by \u201cincreasing operational costs, difficulty recruiting and retaining staff in a highly competitive labor market, and recent legislative changes in the regulatory environment such as reductions in allowable service hours and lower rates for overnight care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just days after Gov. Tim Walz ordered the state Department of Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2025\/10\/29\/tim-walz-orders-audit-of-medicaid-billing-as-fraud-prosecutions-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to pause payments to providers<\/a> of 14 Medicaid-funded assistance programs while these programs undergo a third-party audit to look for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>One of the programs affected by the payment freeze is Personal Care Assistance\/Community First Services and Supports, which was among the offerings of Dependable Home Healthcare, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>State officials estimate the audit could delay payments to service providers by up to 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 406 employees expected to be laid off as Dependable Home Healthcare winds down its operations, 368 are caregivers, while the rest are administrative staffers, Fleury\u2019s letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs will occur in six phases, beginning Jan. 3, 2026, and concluding March 13, 2026, according to the state Department of Employment and Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>Fleury said Dependable Home Healthcare is working to place its clients with other providers in coming months to avoid interruptions in service.<\/p>\n<p>The company, located at 23 Empire Drive, has been in business since 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Paul-based home health care company plans to close in coming months, laying off more than 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":356512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,210,1141,1142,3663,17636,3665,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-356511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-st-paul","14":"tag-tim-walz","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115494955565051475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}