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The location of care delivery is continually changing to adapt to technologies and patient needs. The use of home health care services continues to grow as more and more individuals access these services in the community setting, in lieu of institutional care. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (2018), home health care expenditures were 3% of national health care expenditures in 2017, of the overall spending of having reached $3.5 trillion. This increase has been primarily driven by higher growth in Medicaid spending, partly due to Medicaid's continued shifting of long‐term care from institutional to home settings. In light of an aging population, home health care services will continue to serve an integral role in health care delivery.