ASHER HOME HEALTH SERVICES TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS SERVICES

Asher Home Health Services (AHHS) the only agency providing home health care for Wheeler County residents will have to suspend its services effective May 1, 2022. 

AHHS is a small agency, usually staffed and led by 1 full-time Registered Nurse (RN) plus other support staff.  In December 2021 our full-time RN resigned and left AHHS.  Our backup RN is unable to continue filling the gap past April 30, 2022.  AHHS has been actively recruiting for a full time RN for the past three months. AHHS faces the same challenges hiring and retaining nurses as hospitals and other health care agencies throughout the country.  Without an RN our program cannot legally continue to operate and therefore services must be suspended. 

Facing this potential shutdown AHHS has stopped accepting new admissions.  Asher Community Health Center, a federally funded primary care clinic serving Wheeler County, will continue to provide the necessary services to the remaining patients until AHHS can resume full operations. 

Asher Home Health Services (AHHS) has been providing home health services for Wheeler County since 1994 and looks forward to resuming services as soon as possible.