Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 Medicaid Block Grants Would Put Elders and People with Disabilities at Risk, Groups Tell Congress
Three separate reports conclude that converting Medicaid to a block grant would cause millions of low-income older adults and people with disabilities to lose access to health coverage and long-term care services and supports.
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 Intervention Tools Help Reduce Hospitalization Rates, Study Shows
The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that nursing homes that diligently employed INTERACT tools reduced the hospitalization rates of their residents by 24 percent. Read more... |
 New York Times Gives Thumbs Up to Matching Service Registries
In the "New Old Age Blog," Times reporter Paula Span explains how matching service registries can help link consumers who want to direct their own care with independent home care aides seeking work.
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 National Nursing Assistants Week Scheduled for June
The annual event, which this year will be held June 16-23, recognizes and celebrates nursing assistants for the daily care they provide in nursing homes, home care, and other long-term care settings.
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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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