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	<title>PHInational.org &#187; Aaron Toleos</title>
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	<description>PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, &#38; personal care attendants.</description>
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		<title>NY Times: Obama&#8217;s Leadership Needed to Improve Home Care Wages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A <em>New York Times</em> editorial published on April 15 explains that the proposed rule to extend home care workers minimum wage and overtime protections will take "Obama's engaged leadership" to ensure that the rules are actually implemented.]]></description>
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		<title>PODCAST: PHI&#8217;s Edelstein Interviewed on Ohio Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Edelstein, PHI national policy director, discusses the background and current status of efforts to extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers on the America's Work Force radio program in Ohio.]]></description>
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		<title>PODCAST: Steve Edelstein on the Companionship Exemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Edelstein, PHI national policy director, discusses efforts to extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers and the expected benefits to continuity and quality of care.]]></description>
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		<title>PODCAST: Dr. Dorie Seavey on the Companionship Exemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download audio file (seavey-pacifica-flsa.mp3) download podcast (mp3) Recorded: Thursday, January 5, 2012 Duration: 16:08 File Size: 22.1 MB SUMMARY: Dr. Dorie Seavey, director of policy research at PHI, is interviewed by Margaret Prescod for the &#8220;Sojourner Truth&#8221; radio show. The topic is the Department of Labor&#8217;s proposed rule to end the companionship exemption.]]></description>
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		<title>PHCAST Awards Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the six states that have been awarded grants to develop a <a href="http://phinational.org/policy/phi-guide-to-federal-grants-for-the-direct-care-workforce/phi-grant-guide-personal-home-care-aide-state-training-phcast-program/">Personal and Home Care Aide State Training Program</a> (PHCAST) on September 27.]]></description>
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		<title>MA Legislators Participate in Come Care With Me Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI Massachusetts recently sponsored two Come Care With Me events in which Massachusetts State Senator Pat Jehlen, Senate Chair of the Committee on Elder Affairs, and State Representative Kate Hogan, co-chair of the Elder Caucus, shadowed home care workers on the job. First, on September 22, Representative Hogan worked alongside Cam King, a home health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Captures Passage of Rhode Island Culture Change Legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhode Island State Senator Charles J. Levesque, who co-sponsored the Nursing Home Culture Change legislation (pdf) that passed last June, has posted an eight-part Capitol TV video on YouTube that captures the legislative process that made the bill law. The law was the result of a compromise concerning adding nursing home bed capacity in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Pay for Caregivers: A Tribute to Evelyn Coke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home care worker Evelyn Coke brought her fight for fair pay all the way to the Supreme Court. PHI has released this video on the first anniversary of her passing.]]></description>
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		<title>CMS and Pioneer Network Team Up for Culture Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) partnered with the Pioneer Network on May 14 to sponsor an online symposium to address dining initiatives that promote culture change in nursing homes and explore the potential and perceived regulatory barriers to making such transformations. The online forum entitled “Creating Home in the Nursing Home II: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Launches &#8220;Come Care with Me&#8221; Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colleen Jolly, ICA Board of Directors “Raising public awareness of what’s close to our hearts is the overriding goal of Come Care with Me,” Tracy Lawless and Allison Lee of PHI told participants at an Iowa CareGivers Association (ICA) training workshop recently. The program invites legislators and other policymakers to experience firsthand what direct-care [...]]]></description>
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