The July issue of The Gerontologist featured the results of the Better Jobs Better Care initiative, the four-year $15.5 million research and demonstration project that was the largest initiative in the nation ever created to address the high vacancy and turnover rates of direct-care workers by improving the quality of direct-care jobs.
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Tools for Quality Workforce Released by BJBC
Posted on 29 October 2008.
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Cell Phone Check-In Improves New York Care
Posted on 29 October 2008.
When we first heard of direct-care workers in the South Bronx, New York, being tracked by GPS, we thought of George Orwell’s “Big Brother.” But when we spoke to workers and to a manager at Cooperative Home Care Associates, an affiliate of PHI that recently ran a successful pilot test of the system, we decided [...]
PHI Launches Nine Elements of Quality Care
Posted on 29 October 2008.
For consumers of paid long-term care services, eight out of every ten hours of service are provided not by a nurse or a doctor, but by a direct-care worker—a home health aide, certified nurse aide, or personal care worker. Therefore, for consumers who rely upon services and support from direct-care staff, PHI has identified the [...]
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PHI Project Finds Less Turnover with Training
Posted on 28 October 2008.
PHI has released a comprehensive evaluation (pdf 604k) of its Northern New England LEADS Institute, a three-year demonstration project to improve the quality of direct-care jobs at 12 participating nursing homes and home care agencies in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The results showed decreased turnover at sites with strong implementation of coaching supervision and [...]
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Video: LTC on Missouri Ballot
Posted on 23 October 2008.
[wpyt-post]o2K3vYc3HCY[/wpyt-post] Following our story last week on Washington State’s ballot initiative, we were contacted about a ballot initiative in Missouri that also deals with long-term care workers. The ballot question called Proposition B would create a Quality Home Care Council that would run a statewide registry, coordinate backup services, offer trainings, and negotiate with workers [...]
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Wisconsin Launches State-Wide LTC Campaign
Posted on 23 October 2008.
“We need a little more money for those who have worked for so long. You get fussed at, hit at, bitten, kicked, scratched, slapped, ” said Ronnie Fisher, Sr., a CNA in Wisconsin for the last 23 years. The Kenosha County Long Term Care Project is working to help people like Fisher, in a state [...]
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