Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 PHI Responds to CMS on Health Reform Nursing Home Provisions
Last month, CMS invited comments, suggestions, or concerns about the nursing home
provisions included in the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Read more and comment |
 North Carolina Journal Devotes Issue to Long-Term Care
The North Carolina Medical Journal's March/April
issue contains a suite of articles on long-term care, including two
about the state's direct-care workforce. Read more and comment |
 Home Care Workers Vote to Unionize in Two States
Independent home care workers who provide services to Medicaid-eligible
consumers voted to unionize in Missouri and Wisconsin on May 5 and 6,
respectively, totaling 17,000 workers who will be represented there. Read more and comment |
 PHI and DCA Partnership Strengthened
PHI and the Direct
Care Alliance have renewed their commitment to collaborate
more closely to achieve their common goal to improve the quality of
eldercare and disability services by improving the quality of
direct-care jobs. Read more and comment |
Deane Beebe, Director of Public Education and Media Relations
dbeebe@phinational.org718.928.2033 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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