Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 Matching Service Registries Could Help States Meet CLASS Workforce Infrastructure Requirements
Matching service registries could prove to be a valuable building block under the CLASS Plan, according to a new PHI study -- the first to focus on the workforce issues raised by CLASS.
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 CMS Awards Funding to Improve Care for "Dual Eligible" Beneficiaries
Fifteen states have received federal contracts from CMS to design new ways of providing coordinated care for individuals receiving both Medicaid and Medicare benefits, also known as "dual eligibles." Read more... |
 Direct-Care Workers' Role in Transitional Care Highlighted
PHI Director of Policy Research Dorie Seavey, Ph.D., discussed how direct-care workers' roles can be leveraged to improve care transitions at the Association of Health Care Journalists' annual conference on April 16.
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 Washington Home Care Workers Arrested at Budget Demonstration
Home care workers were among the more than a dozen people arrested at the Washington state capitol on April 7 while protesting the proposed 16 percent state budget cut to home care services.
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 In Brief
- An Iowa direct-care worker speaks at a health reform conference.
- A medical journal issues a call for CNAs to contribute first-person accounts of their care experiences.
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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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