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COMMENTARY: Healthy Home Care, for Patients and Workers
Robyn R. M. Gershon, a professor and associate dean at Columbia University's Mailman School of public health, explores the occupational hazards faced by home care workers. Read more... |
 PHI Rolls Out Fact Sheets on Health Reform and the Direct-Care Workforce
The first entry details federal grant opportunities and two new workforce advisory commissions aimed at supporting direct-care workers and their employers. Read more... |
 PHI Profiles "Best Practices" in Long-Term Care
PHI has created a new resource at its website: profiles of "best
practices" employed in nursing homes and home and community-based
settings. Read more... |
 PHI and the Eden Alternative Partner
PHI and the
Eden Alternative have formed an official alliance that will bring
the PHI Coaching Approach SM to the international community of
Eden enthusiasts. Read more... |
 NCCNHR's New Name, Expanded Mission
The National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has changed its name, reorganized, and expanded its national advocacy priorities. Read more... |
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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