Quality Care/Quality Jobs
News about the direct-care workforce |
 DOL Listening Sessions on Companionship Exemption Are Spirited
During the week of July 25, the Department of Labor hosted two telephone conferences with stakeholders in order to hear perspectives on its plan to issue revised regulations for the companionship exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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 Private Insurance Co-Pays Eliminated for Women's Preventive Services
Newly released federal guidelines on preventive health services for women outline services that insurance plans must cover without co-payments under the Affordable Care Act. Read more... |
 In Brief
Three brief stories on direct care: - Standards lowered for Hawaii caregivers
- Boston College receives an HHS grant
- PHI board member honored in San Francisco
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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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