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  September 9, 2009
reocvery.gov logoStimulus Funds Available to Support Direct-Care Workforce

$125 million will go to projects providing training, education, and job placement assistance to prepare workers to enter the health care field.

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The Commonwealth Fund logoREPORT: Health Reforms Needed to Curb Rising Premiums

The Commonwealth Fund has released a data brief titled "Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes."

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graphicNational Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week

The U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to set aside September 14-19, 2009 as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.

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WIN A STEP UP graphicREPORT: Workplace Interventions Improve Turnover, Quality of Care

The "Workplace Interventions, Turnover, and Quality of Care Report" details the effects of three workplace interventions aimed at improving North Carolina's nursing homes.

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Aaron Toleos, Online Communications Director
atoleos@phinational.org
718-874-9035

PHI works to improve the lives of people who need home and residential care-and the lives of the workers who provide that care. Our goal is to ensure caring, stable relationships between consumers and workers, so that both may live with dignity, respect, and independence.

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