Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 Proposal to Weaken Medicaid Draws Opposition
Advocates are fighting back against a proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act's maintenance of effort provisions, which prohibit states from changing Medicaid and CHIP eligibility requirements until 2014 for adults and 2019 for children.
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 OIG Study Finds Most Nursing Homes Employ Someone Convicted of a Crime
More than 90 percent of nursing homes had at least one employee with a criminal conviction, according to a March 2011 report released by the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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 GAO Report Details Extent of Elder Abuse
Elder abuse is a growing and largely unnoticed problem in the U.S., according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
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 Coaching and Training: News from the Field
The March issue of PHI Training & Organizational Development News reports on the experience of three organizational leaders engaged in Executive Coaching. 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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