It is true that home health aides are often underpaid, and while they can be held both civilly and criminally responsible for their actions, they often will not have the funds available to satisfy a compensation award. Despite this, a company or agency that hires home health aides and contracts them out to care for patients can also be held financially responsible for the actions of its employees. This employment liability theory makes sense, because the employer-agency is actually the entity that made representations to you about the level of care that the individual would receive—and while you may have conducted a cursory interview with the aide, the agency itself was responsible for making sure that only trustworthy, trained home health aides were sent to your loved one’s home.