Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 PHI Releases New Analysis on the Direct-Care Workforce
The analysis shows that wages and benefits for these frontline health care workers continue to be woefully inadequate. Read more... |
 Proposed Cuts to Federal Employment and Training Funds Contested
PHI and about 50 other national organizations voiced their opposition to the proposed $3.8 billion cuts to employment and training funding in the House-passed FY 2011 Continuing Resolution.
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 Wage Parity Included in Proposal to Reform New York Medicaid
On February 24, New York State's Medicaid Redesign Team passed a package of 79 reforms and cuts, including making wage parity for home care workers a condition for providers to participate in the Medicaid program.
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 IOM Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations to Hold Inaugural Meeting
The IOM plans to make policy recommendations to meet the mental and behavioral health care needs of Americans age 65 and older at the meetings on March 7 and 8.
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 Direct Care Alliance Unveils Credential for Caregivers
The DCA's credentialing program for personal care and support professionals is intended to help professionalize the direct-care workforce. 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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