An online meeting on Monday, May 19, from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT will look at culture change in nursing homes. Culture Change in Nursing Homes: How Far Have We Come? will be cohosted by the Picker/Commonwealth Fund Quality of Care for Frail Elders program and the Pioneer Network. Michelle Doty of the Commonwealth Fund [...]
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PHI works to improve long-term care — by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, & personal care attendants.Archive | May, 2008
California Rate Increase Doesn’t Reach DCWs
Posted on 10 May 2008.
California nursing homes earned considerably more money from Medicaid after reimbursement rates were raised, but the money didn’t benefit direct-care workers or residents, according to a study by Charlene Harrington and colleagues at the University of California San Francisco. In fact, wages for nursing assistants actually fell slightly when adjusted for inflation, and patient care [...]
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Tools for Health Care Advocates
Posted on 10 May 2008.
[wpyt-post]mvbg_m9346M[/wpyt-post] If you’re looking for tools to help you explain why direct-care workers need better health care coverage, you might be interested the PHI Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign’s new video and updated website. In the video The Most Dangerous Job in America, (click on image) CNA Catherine Lawrence and Health Care for Health [...]
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Washington Advocates Call for More Training for DCWs
Posted on 10 May 2008.
“What’s wrong with this picture?” begins an op-ed in the April 22 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “In Washington, hairdressers need 1,000 hours of training and dog masseurs need 350 hours. Washington’s long-term care workers, on the other hand, need only 34 hours of training.” “More Training for Long-Term Care Workers” notes that the direct-care workers who provide [...]
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Caregiving is Women’s Work
Posted on 09 May 2008.
Caregiving is women’s work. It is with that simple statement in mind that I went to the Raising Women’s Voices Conference last month, sponsored by the Avery Institute, Merger Watch, and the National Women’s Health Network. I was invited to participate on the opening plenary panel to discuss voices that are traditionally left out of health care reform [...]
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Consumer-Directed Workers Need Help with On-the-Job Injuries
Posted on 02 May 2008.
Many of the direct-care workers who provide consumer-directed care in California cannot access workers’ compensation assistance when they are injured on the job, according to a recent study. And that finding has “important implications for workers’ health and the sustainability of consumer-directed programs-within and beyond California,” according to authors Teresa Scherzer and Nicole Wolfe of [...]
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