Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 New York Times Covers Health Care Workers' Lack of Coverage
Many nursing homes and home care agencies are lobbying for an exemption from a health-reform mandate requiring employers to offer health coverage to employees beginning in 2014, the Times reports.
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 Women Have Much to Gain from Health Reform, Commonwealth Fund Reports
The report found that 27 million working-age women were uninsured for at least part of 2010, and that women with low and moderate incomes were much less likely to have health coverage or to get the medical care they need. Read more... |
 Proposed Medicaid Cuts Jeopardize Workforce Growth, Reports Families USA
The report says that the proposed federal cuts to Medicaid would put the health of older adults and people living with disabilities at risk and exacerbate the direct-care workforce shortage.
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 Texas Budget Proposal Spares Medicaid, Cuts Community-Based Care
After several months of debate, potentially devastating cuts to Texas's Medicaid reimbursement rates have been deleted from the state budget proposal, which was approved by a House-Senate committee on May 17.
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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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