Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 Long-Term Care Programs Fare Well in Obama Budget
Despite the prevailing focus on the nation's debt and the tough fiscal choices it faces, many programs designed to provide long-term services and supports and improve the health care workforce fared well in the Obama's proposal. Read more... |
 Consumer Advocacy Group "Shocked" by Florida Ombudsman Dismissal
News that Brian Lee, the director of the Florida Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, was forced to resign from his position on February 14 brought an outcry from ombudsmen throughout the state and from the Consumer Voice. Read more... |
 ASA Journal Devotes Latest Issue to Eldercare Workforce
The new issue of Generations, the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging, is devoted entirely to the eldercare workforce, including articles by PHI that highlight the direct-care workforce.
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 PHI Letter to New York Times Editor Says U.S., Like Germany, Faces Direct-Care Worker Shortage
The New York Times published a letter to the editor by PHI President Steven Dawson on February 11, regarding the article "As Germany Booms, It Faces a Shortage of Workers."
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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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