Archive | July, 2007

Health Care for Health Care Workers Launches Website

July 26, 2007 – A powerful new resource from PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign, www.coverageiscritical.org has something for everyone with a stake in improving the quality of care in our nation’s long-term care system. People receiving long-term care services and their friends and family members can learn about why health care coverage [...]

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Stemming the Turnover Tide: IOM committee hears what it would take to improve direct-care worker retention

July 3, 2007 – “The eldercare field, to a very large degree, now knows how to recruit and retain paraprofessional workers,” Steven L. Dawson, president of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), told the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans. “There is no mystery here: If tomorrow we [...]

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