Archive | August, 2008

Rising Gas Prices Expose Home Care Fault Line

Are rising gas prices making it harder for you to deliver or receive care? Add your comments at the end of this post.  We all feel the pinch from high gas prices, but for home care workers it’s more of a punch. As PHI President Steven Dawson puts it: “The doubling of gas prices over the past few years has been like [...]

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LTC Expert Calls for More Funding or More Realistic Care Standards

The nursing home regulatory system sets unrealistically high standards of care because “there has been no analysis of the resources – and particularly the labor resources – necessary to achieve these standards,” said John Schnelle (pictured) of Vanderbilt University at a July 11 Capitol Hill briefing on long-term care reform. “Some studies suggest that twice [...]

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