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June 19, 2007 – Vera Salter, PhD, Director of the National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce since its founding in 2000, left her full-time position at the end of May. Salter built the Clearinghouse into the premier national information resource supporting the movement to improve the quality of long-term care through the creation of [...]

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June 8, 2007 – Joe Angelelli, PhD, is joining the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) as its Pennsylvania State Director. Angelelli will assume his new position on July 2. “We are thrilled that Joe will be joining PHI,” says National Policy Director Steven Edelstein. “He is a passionate long-term care reformer who brings with him a [...]

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June 6, 2007 – Montana has approved a new way of providing health care coverage for health care workers. As of January 2009, the state will increase its Medicaid payments to agencies that deliver in-home care so they can purchase health insurance for a significant number of their direct-care employees. “We applaud Montana’s ground-breaking legislation,” [...]

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