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November 20, 2007 – PHI President Steven L. Dawson is the recipient of the 2007 Cindy Marano Trailblazer Award for Innovative Leadership in Sector Workforce Development. The award was presented to Dawson on November 14 by the National Network of Sector Partners, on behalf of his work at PHI. The Trailblazer Award for Innovative Leadership [...]

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November 19, 2007 – Last month, Amy Robins became PHI’s fifth state policy director, expanding the organization’s presence in Massachusetts and adding to the overall depth of PHI’s policy team. Robins’ hire allows PHI to assume a more active role in long-term care issues affecting Massachusetts. Previously, PHI facilitated the formation of a direct-care coalition [...]

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November 16, 2007 – “Eligibility does not guarantee coverage,” testified PHI New York Policy Director Carol Rodat at a public hearing on expanding health care coverage in New York state. “Attention must be paid to the characteristics of the uninsured population, eligibility levels, and especially enrollment procedures. The demographic, income and work hours of direct-care [...]

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November 15, 2007 – Joe Angelelli, PHI’s Pennsylvania State Director, testified before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Aging and Older Adult Services Committee on the sale of HCR Manor Care, a large for-profit chain, to a private equity group.The Pennsylvania hearing was part of a new focus on the buying of large nursing home chains [...]

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Press Release (pdf) November 7, 2007 – Edwin Méndez-Santiago, Commissioner of the New York City Department for the Aging, has named PHI as one of two winners of the 2007 Commissioner’s Award for Innovation. PHI is a Bronx-based nonprofit that works to ensure high-quality, cost-effective services for long-term care consumers by helping create quality jobs [...]

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”In a way, the whole long-term care system is upside down,” says Celia Berdes, PhD, a gerontologist and sociologist at Northwestern University and director of research at Presbyterian Homes in Evanston, Illinois. ”The things that are the most important are the least valued, and the things that are the least important are the most valued.” [...]

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